[ale] public sharing of folders on linux - newbie question

[Jeff Hubbs]

On 1/25/13 10:23 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Easiest way is to run httpd on your system and put public docs for 
> read-only in ~/public_html
>
> If remote people _have_ to read-write stuff, then it's a bit trickier: 
> NFS or samba (CIFS). NFS is standard *NIX way and windows users can't 
> access it.You can use CIFS (samba) and windows users can access. You 
> _can_ use both at the same but the file locking for writes get messy. 
> *NIX _can_ access CIFS files pretty easy but windows has a hard time 
> with NFS files.
At one time there was an MS add-on - "Services for UNIX" or some such, 
and I can't remember if it was zero-cost or not and even if I remembered 
correctly that status may have changed - that made mounting NFS volumes 
possible from Windows clients.  But, as Bob Toxen once impressed upon me 
years ago, *all NFS implementations are at least a little broken*. :)