Bad Suggestion!
Jeremy Allison
jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Fri Feb 5 20:28:17 GMT 1999
Florian Laws wrote:
> I always thought NFS was one of the ugliest filesharing protocols available,
> especially security-wise.
>
Maybe - but SMB wins the butt-ugly prize for *everything*
else :-).
> I even wondered if it makes sense to use SAMBA for UNIX-to-UNIX filesharing
> or if should better go with AFS.
Please don't use smb for UNIX to UNIX. It sucks. Very badly.
Use a protocol that was designed instead of growing
like an ugly wart :-) :-).
Cheers,
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.
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