Samba.  It is seemless as far as Windows is concerned.  It can be
problematic to set up permissions (docs are very good), but open shares a
very easy.

Tom Veldhouse

----- Original Message -----
From: "B_o_B" <chewbaka at toughguy.net>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: [TCLUG] NFS or Samba??


> Thursday, October 31, 2002   @   9:01:47 AM Central Standard Time
>
> Hello group.  I convinced my boss on switching some 2K Server boxes we use
> for file sharing & other things over to Slackware.  Most of the machines
in
> the office that will be accessing the Slackware boxes will be 2K Pro, or
NT
> workstation.  I was wondering what the general opinion is out their
> regarding winblows boxes accessing Linux file servers.
>
> Is it better to fire up NFS on the Slack boxes, and configure the winblows
> boxes to use NFS
> or
> Should I fire up Samba on the Slack Boxes instead of NFS??
>
> Any comments are greatly appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks & Rock'N'Roll,
>
> Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars
> mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net
>
>
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