Hi Guys I have been tasked to produce a paper on why we should use SAMBA instaed of jus bog-standard NFS. Can you direct me to somewhere on your site where the info on this kind of comparison might be readily available. Francis.
Op di 28-05-2002, om 13:16 schreef Francis Adegbile:> Hi Guys > I have been tasked to produce a paper on why we should use SAMBA instaed of > jus bog-standard NFS. > Can you direct me to somewhere on your site where the info on this kind of > comparison might be > readily available.I think it is very simple. If you use Windows in your network you HAVE to use Samba. If all the computers in the network understand NFS you SHOULD NOT use Samba.
> Op di 28-05-2002, om 13:16 schreef Francis Adegbile: > > Hi Guys > > I have been tasked to produce a paper on why we should use SAMBA > > instaed of jus bog-standard NFS. Can you direct me to somewhere on > > your site where the info on this kind of comparison might be readily > > available. > > I think it is very simple. If you use Windows in your network you HAVE > to use Samba. If all the computers in the network understand NFS you > SHOULD NOT use Samba.One thing to note in this comparison: NFS uses a per host based authentisication, samba uses a per user based authentisication. This is way NFS has to trust its clients, whiele samba has not. This has a couple of effects we you at the university: The two departments of our institute have a seperate account managment, we only agree on ranges of nummeric uids for each department: This way we can have a commen NFS shared disk. Our central computer department offers unix accounts with disk space and printing for everybody. But they surly do not let every linux pc of a student give the permission to do a NFS mount. They have to use smbfs. Christian _(_)_ wWWWw _ @@@@ (_)@(_) vVVVv _ @@@@ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ wWWWw (_)\ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ (___) `|/ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ \|/ (_)\ / Y \| \|/ /(_) \| |/ | \ | \ |/ | / \ | / \|/ |/ \| \|/ jgs|// \\|/// \\\|//\\\|/// \|/// \\\|// \\|// \\\|// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Op di 28-05-2002, om 14:45 schreef Christian Barth:> One thing to note in this comparison: NFS uses a per host based > authentisication, samba uses a per user based authentisication. This > is way NFS has to trust its clients, whiele samba has not. This has a > couple of effects we you at the university: > > The two departments of our institute have a seperate account > managment, we only agree on ranges of nummeric uids for each > department: This way we can have a commen NFS shared disk. > > Our central computer department offers unix accounts with disk space > and printing for everybody. But they surly do not let every linux pc > of a student give the permission to do a NFS mount. They have to use > smbfs.I did not know this. Thanks for the info.