[Samba] Problem running kde

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Nov 15 18:34:45 GMT 2004


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 08:22:27AM -0600, Paul Gienger wrote:
> Well I told myself I wasn't coming back to this (off topic) 'why NFS is 
> bad' discussion, but since I kindof started it...
> 
> My point was simply that you're doing a conversion back to the original 
> format through a potential lossy intermediate.  Kind of like 
> transferring a wav file by first compressing it into mp3 and then back 
> out.  Not to slag samba, since it's about 20% of my admin day and I 
> think it's wonderful, but it just seems ill suited for what you're 
> doing.

Actually, one of our primary goals for Samba is to make it very well
suited for what he is doing :-). See my talk on "CIFS to the Desktop"
I gave at this years NFS conference.

Jeremy.


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