REPEAT: hasn't anyone used smbclient linux->linux?

Andreas Hasenack unixach at ez-poa.com.br
Wed Oct 20 19:40:49 GMT 1999


Em qua, 20 out 1999, Paul L. Lussier escreveu:
> Why would you *want* to use smbclient or smbmount between 2 Linux systems?  
> NFS is much faster and a better protocol over-all.  It's also much easier to 
> deal with, since NFS is something that's been around in the Unix world for 20 
> years or so.

NFS's authentication is weak (it's host based). With Samba you get also user
authentication. With pam_smb you could even replace N[IY]S[+] for the user auth
part.


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