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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2012 22:35:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
Cc:        Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Cloud" software ?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205252233040.31165@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4FBFB5E7.1050005@qeng-ho.org>
References:  <4FBF3EA9.2000103@esiee.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251514330.22501@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF8F38.9070300@qeng-ho.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1205251602350.22852@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4FBF9356.7040504@esiee.fr> <4FBF9BDF.4020208@qeng-ho.org> <4FBFA17A.7010906@esiee.fr> <4FBFB5E7.1050005@qeng-ho.org>

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> As he said in his post, NFS is the first place to start. It's available on 
> FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS, other Unix derived systems, and Windows 7. The one 
> thing to be careful of is that it works best when you have all home 
> directories on central servers and all access is on client machines. It is

i would strongly recommend serving windows clients with windows protocol 
(samba), it is just simple and works great

> For earlier (< 7) Windows boxes, one possibility is running Samba on the Unix 
> servers. This would seem most natural to a Windows user as they merely have 
> to browse the network to find the shared file systems.

With windows 7 samba still is far better.

And with NFS you will not be able to enforce security without making 
separate filesystem for each user.

> However, another possibility is running a WebDAV server that makes the home 
> directories visible. Windows (>= XP) can connect drive letters to WebDAV 
> servers, and there are also Android and iPhone apps that can access WebDAV.

if really someone needs HTTP based file access (IMHO stupid) because 
phones require this i would rather set it up parallel to SAMBA and/or NFS

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