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

[Lightner, Jeff]

"broken" more so than MS based things?

I don't use Samba unless I have to.

One way to avoid problems with NFS is to use automount so the mount is only made when it is used as opposed to being their all the time.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Hubbs
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:33 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] public sharing of folders on linux - newbie question

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*. :)


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