From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jun 22 8:12: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0C437C31D for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bart.lateur@skynet.be) Received: from dialup683.gent.skynet.be (dialup683.gent.skynet.be [194.78.243.107]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with SMTP id EA743DBB5 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:12:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) To: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: NFS vs Samba Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:02:48 GMT Organization: MediaMind Message-ID: <39552a2f.1060491@relay.skynet.be> References: <394F6108.5A0C0808@uswest.net> In-Reply-To: <394F6108.5A0C0808@uswest.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/16.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:18:16 -0600, Joe Warner wrote: >What's better for file sharing across a network? NFS or Samba? ...Just >curious. Thanks. Samba is specifically intended for PC clients, NFS for Unix. You need an extension to access NFS from a Windows PC, and they are not really cheap (TuCows has a few). -- Bart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message