small network

[Cyber Source]

With the vmware route, you can have NFS running on the Linux workstation 
(host) and then share the Linux data with the workstations samba, then 
when running your windows under vmware, you can map the share to a 
drive, so now windows is sharing data either with it's own Linux machine 
(host) or with the NFS that was shared with the server! Pretty cool huh?

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- Advent Systems <adventsystems at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Dave,
>>    When you say:
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>>If you have a Linux only network,  NFS is simplest, if you have a mixed
>>windows/Linux then samba is probably the better route, as there isn't' a
>>decent
>>FREE NFS client for windows that works worth a damn.
>>
>>Do you mean I would have to remove windows completely from the machines on
>>the network?  I could not do that with all the boxes, but if NFS is MUCH
>>simpler then Samba I could take one of the machines off the network and use
>>it to run its windows programs stand-alone.  So I guess the question is how
>>much simpler or better is NFS compared to Samba? 
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>NFS is primarily for UNIX ONLY environments,  for a mixed environment like what
>you have and seem to want, samba is a much better choice.
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>NFS in larger environments (i.e more than 10 machines) works best when used in
>combination with a shared authentification system like NIS.  NIS can be a bitch
>to setup depending on how well the distribution of linux you run was
>designed.
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>Dave J. Andruczyk
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