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Re: [LUG] ***SPAM*** Re: PC sharing

 

On 18/01/2008, Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:06:18 +0000, "Michael Mortimore"
> <nospamformike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Jan 14, 2008 4:28 PM, Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> george wrote:
> >> > 1. Should I still be trying to use Samba, or LISA, zero config
> service
> >> > discovery (whatever that is) or what?  If I know for sure what works
> > well
> >> > I'll put in the effort to find how to do it.
> >> >
> >> I would have thought NFS would be the way to go.
> > If you're used to samba, I'd suggest you stick with samba. I found that
> NFS was really slow to connect. I gather it might have been something to
> do with the lack of a name server or equivalent but I never managed to
> sort it out. I also found that if i shut down the nfs server without
> unmounting on the client then client would fail to unmount it and refuse
> to shut down. The fix being to switch on the server again. I think this
> behaviour can be changed but I didn't try it. I found samba much easier
> to configure.
> >
>

I found the opposite - nfs is far, far faster

You will probably need to punch holes in the firewall for various nfs
services though
> Slow NFS mounting on a local network, ime, is normally because the server
> is unable to resolve the clients hostname from IP... two ways to fix
> that..
> 1, local DNS.. 2, /etc/hosts
>

ditto

> As for the unmounting thing.. what kind of idiot shuts down a fileserver
> before the clients have unmounted ??
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