On 2021-05-24 4:33 p.m., Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 5/24/21 2:15 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, there is the question why are you using samba instead of nfs, because you have not mentioned "windows".
Thanks everyone for all your suggestions, and yes I should have mentioned that I also have Windoz computers on my network as well and I want to share all my file systems, including /, with those systems as well. I guess I thought that was implicit in saying I am using Samba but on re-reading my email I can see the confusion. It is hard to be sure I have covered all the bases when composing an email like this. Sorry for the confusion.
I like NFS also, have used it in the past, but stopped when I realized it does not work for Windoz systems and I wanted a one-shop solution. I will set it up again for the "Linux - Linux" systems and try it out, but that costs double maintenance.
Well it seems Windows-10 comes with an NFS option https://graspingtech.com/mount-nfs-share-windows-10/ and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/nfs/nfs-overview#win... Though it also seems NFS is available for earlier version as well. I recall back when trying a couple of free and/or evaluation versions. Yes, I've used SAMBA for shares. I once worked at a national-level telco that used Samba on a couple of big iron HP machines to support home/shares/p & projects and resources because they were (a) more reliable than any intel based Windows server from both a HW and SW POV; (b) they were more scalable and maintained a high level of performance under heavy load; and (c) they were more consistently manageable. Point (c) proved interesting and controversial. While in theory there are more Windows techies and UNIX (Read: HP/UX) techies around, there is a difference in attitude. Somewhere I have an reference to an article on this. part of it was that *NIX people learn 'generalities' whereas the Windows people know how to operate a specific GUI and need 'retraining' with each new release and new layout GUI. Which is how the Windows Ecosystem makes its money. (And why Windows is so popular -- there's more money to be made with it.) I've had a few instances in my career where the fact that "Its just *NIX" was all that mattered. Contrariwise there are still some managers and recruiters that are brand obsessed "Oh, you only used SUSE and not Redhat". Well suck it up! It's not SUN either so how can it be real UNIX? -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg