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

[Matt Thrailkill]

Samba is probably your best bet.  Some people say that even if it were
all Linux machines installed, Samba would be a better choice than using
say nfs.

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:17 -0700, Karl Young wrote:
> 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
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