<br>Another option is a program called FreeNAS, based on freeBSD. Its only need 32meg to install. it will accept FTP, NFS, AFP, CIFS (samba), rsync. Takes about 20 min's to setup. I have ran into a few old I/F cards that have problems with FreeBSD so just fyi.
<br><br><br>Some testing I have done in the past on comparing pre (3.x samba) to NFS I have found if you are connecting Unix to Unix then NFS connection speed tests faster with large files (500meg or larger) for my testing. For windos then samba for sure. If running
3.x samba then its a toss up between NFS and Samba for large files. 3.x Samba seems a little faster transfer speeds all around. From what I have read the 3.x samba uses a smarter connection setup. Don't know for sure.
<br><br>- Pat<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael ORourke</b> <<a href="mailto:mrorourke@earthlink.net">mrorourke@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Lug nuts,<br><br>I have a small site in which I added a Linux server and set up simple Samba<br>file sharing. When I set it up a few years ago, the only clients on the<br>network were Win 2k and XP Pro. So I just shared out a couple of
<br>directories via Samba and mapped them to the workstations. Pretty basic<br>setup. Now I have a need to add a few more workstations to the network, and<br>since the hardware is older recycled equipment, I have loaded Ubuntu on
<br>them. Here's my question... I would like to set them up with access to the<br>same shares as the Windows workstations on the server, but not sure the best<br>way to go about that. Should I export them via NFS, or use samba on the
<br>Linux client to attach to the samba shares on the Linux server? Is there a<br>downside of doing either? I'm curious what other folks have done.<br><br>-Mike<br><br>_______________________________________________
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