On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 10:31 US/Central, Thomas T. Veldhouse 
wrote:

> 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.

It's as easy to control the perms as NFS is. If not easier. You can 
force directory and file modes and can limit based on unix group as 
well as IP.

There's no other logical choice for this than samba.

>
> 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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Ben Lutgens		
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Sistina Software Inc		http://www.sistina.com
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