Thursday, October 31, 2002   @   3:29:53 PM Central Standard Time

Cool....Thanks Alot....

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

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Thursday, October 31, 2002, 10:57:00 AM, you wrote:

MV> *cough*

MV> Uhh, no, no we didn't. :)

MV> And no, it's not dead.

MV> As far as which is better, it'd depend on what the 'other things' you use
MV> them for are.  Figure out all the things they need to do and compare.  If
MV> you're going beyond the realm of just file sharing, then you're probably
MV> going to want samba.  Otherwise, I'd consider NFS the easier choice as far
MV> as configuration goes (though there may be nice GUI Samba configuration
MV> tools out there, I haven't checked lately).

MV> --
MV> Michael Vieths
MV> Foeclan at Visi.com

MV> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Dan Rue wrote:

>> I vote for samba!
>> 
>> Why Slackware?  isn't it sort of, ahh, dead?
>> 
>> All the Slackware people went to Debian years ago :)
>> 
>> dan
>> I've been wrong before <shrug>
>> 
>> 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??
>> > 
>> > 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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