G T Smith wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
I can't seem to find the answer to the following question, not even in "Samba for Dummies". I guess the question is too simple. Anyway...
Is it okay to have more than one samba server in a given local network?
Or put another way...
Do you need a samba server on each linux machine that wants to serve shares?
Responses appreciated.
You can have multiple servers on the network and any Linux box can be a server. If you're not sharing to Windows systems, you can also use NFS instead of Samba.
I'm trying to use both. I'm using NFS for certain functions that do not require Windows and would like to use Samba for those functions that do. This is doable. Right?
It is doable, but my experience with mixing NFS mounts with CIFS shares was not a happy one, YMMV. In the end dropped the NFS side. If the files need to be shared by both Windows and *NIX clients I would suggest use CIFS/Samba only (at least for those files which need to shared by both).
What sort of problems were you having? I've had some directories shared by both methods for years and it's worked fine. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org