small network

[Cyber Source]

also, I gotta say this. With the vmware routine I just suggested, once 
the windows part is all setup with mapped drives, printers, software 
whatever. I backup the whole windows system (it is in one folder on the 
Linux box) to a tar file and put it somewhere on the Linux box. If the 
windows systems gets all virused up or whatever, I can just remove it 
and put the backup in its place in less than 5 minutes and I don't even 
have to be there, can do it all sshing in! That is a real time saver and 
works great with the customers I have using it. Way better than dancing 
around with windows boxes that will eventually get all bugged up. Oh and 
another thing, the vmware windows sessions are HARDWARE TRANSPARENT!! In 
case the realm of possibilities escaped you there, for one, you can take 
your backup and ssh them to any machine and fire them all up! One backup 
for all, no matter what hardware the machine has!

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>--- Advent Systems <adventsystems at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Dave,
>>    When you say:
>>
>>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.
>
>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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