[SlugLUG] Best remote FS for windows/linux/mac?

[Karl Young]

I just built an ubuntu system to be a mail and file server for my home 
network.  Probably about 8-10 clients total, a mix of OS X, Win XP, 
W2K, and Linux systems.  Most of these are on my desk, but a couple
belong to my wife, so they need to "just work."

It seems the easiest thing to do would be run Samba server on the file
server, then samba client on the linux system, built-in smb support
on OSX and MS systems.

Any reason to get more complicated than this?  Also, I assume I could
rig up some ssh port forwarding to mount these from work without
opening the naughty ports.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks

-karl