[Samba] Re: using samba as unix network filesystem

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Mon Dec 2 17:09:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Ronan Waide wrote:

> On December 2, jht at samba.org said:
> >
> > The trouble is that if you enable this for any shared file space, your MS
> > Windows client applications will break.
>
> I think the point he was making is that he's using it solely for
> Linux-to-Linux communication, which I think is the wrong tool for the
> job, but hey.

I totaly agree! SMB/CIFS is the ugliest most over-loaded protocol I know
of. Leave it for those ugly MS Windows environments and use something more
akin to Unix/Linux.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org



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