NFS vs SAMBA

[Rudi von Staden]

Permissions have been a bit of a headache, but we've managed to 'hack'
together a fairly effective setup (not sure how it conforms to best
practices). It hasn't been thoroughly tested, but there haven't been
any problems as yet. My colleague has been taking care of that so I'm
not too familiar with the configuration, but I think using a
combination of "inherit permissions = yes" in smb.conf, and setting
the 's' bit in the group permissions of the folders did the trick for
us.

I'll keep an eye on the user id's and see if I can pick up any irregularities!

Rudi


On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:04:35 +0200, Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi at sci.fi> wrote:
> 
> Do you need proper file permission setup?  (rwx)  At least to me, that
> does not work over Samba.
> 
> Also, current Ubuntu smbfs client seems to mess up the user id's (using
> the server's permissions, not the client's). Apart from these, it's
> allright and I'm using it.
> 
> Haven't tried NFS, so will be listening to the experiences as keenly as
> you.. :)
> 
> -ak
> 
> 26.11.2004 kello 15:32, Rudi von Staden kirjoitti:
> 
> 
> 
>   Hi,
> >
> > I have a fairly mixed 'play' network, with a linux network server
> > connected to an XP file / backup server, several Windows laptops, and
> > then my Ubuntu machine. Samba is set up quite nicely, and I'm
> > wondering if there would be any advantage to me connecting to the
> > Linux server with NFS rather than Samba (other than as a learning
> > experience). Are there significant performance / functionality
> > differences?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rudi
> >
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