Bad Suggestion!

[Florian Laws]

On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:23:30PM +1100, Matt Chapman wrote:
> William Stuart wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps it is time that a member of the SAMBA team wrote a 'SAMBA Network
> > Service' for NT and a "Client for SAMBA Networks" for Win95/98.
> 
> Why hack up the SMB/CIFS protocol to provide UNIX semantics when
> there's a better protocol for that already (NFS).
> 
Sure?
I always thought NFS was one of the ugliest filesharing protocols available,
especially security-wise.

I even wondered if it makes sense to use SAMBA for UNIX-to-UNIX filesharing
or if should better go with AFS.

Florian