Re: preferred ways of sharing

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 06:45:36PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> I've got samba serving unix shares to my windows machines and nfs sharing 
> files between my unix machines, and windows file sharing to share between 
> windows machines.
> 
> What's the recommended way to share windows files on my unix machines? Or 
> should I just stick to FTP for that kind of thing?

See the SMB HOWTO, especially chapter 8:

http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html

See also the man pages for "smbmount" and "mount".

> I notice, as far as being able to pass shares between machines that an nfs 
> share can be seen via samba on windows, meaning I can see a share on my 
> linux box which is mounting as an nfs share on my fbsd box, which in turn 
> is a samba share on my windows workstation. But windows doesn't seem to 
> allow that sort of chaining of shares that I've seen.

You would expect more? :-)

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