Thursday, October 31, 2002   @   2:35:24 PM Central Standard Time

Rodger That.....Just checked, all the 2K Pro boxes have a NFS, but the
T workstations would need the NFS hook-up....Thanks......Gonna go with
Samba


Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars
mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net

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Thursday, October 31, 2002, 10:44:27 AM, you wrote:

FI> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:02:33AM -0600, B_o_B wrote:
>> 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??

FI> Samba would be cheaper beacause you will need to purchase NFS clients
FI> for Windows.

FI> Cheers,
FI> florin