Re: [LUG] Networking question...

[John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin White wrote:
> This may be obvious to some, but, what's the best way of sharing folders and 
> files on a server?
>
> I'm so used to having lots of windows machines that i would normally just go 
> for samba but in this instance i wandered if there were any better choices. I 
> have the following machines:
>
> - Desktop (linux) (wireless 54)
> - Server (linux) (wired 100)
> - Work Laptop (linux mostly, boot to windows for some projects) (wireless 54)
> - PC2 (windows - and has to be) (wireless 11)
> - XBox (supports most protocols from XBMC) (wired 10, if that!)
>
> As you can see, most of this is now linux, but i do still have the odd windows 
> client in there. I need my server to serve me up files, http and ftp and 
> anything else that i may think of in the future (mail as discussed earlier in 
> the week for instance).
>
> So is samba still the natural way to expose the directories i want to be able 
> to read and write on the server from clients or is there perhaps a better 
> way.

I've got just the one Win32 box left on my network, and I'm embarrassed 
to admit that my main file server is running samba, and all my *ix boxes 
are mounting filesystems using -tsmbfs.  Performance is pretty good 
(mind you, it's mainly switched gigabit) and I'm only using the single 
NAT layer. I've avoided moving to NFS or whatever because I don't want 
to go through the hassle of supporting the WinXP box more than I have to.

jd


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