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

[cerise at armory.com]

Samba will work, though NFS should as well.  NFS to me seems much easier to
work with, but it doesn't have the advantage of being able to share printers
and so on.

I'd further recommend setting something up to remount the filesystems every
so often.  Windows boxes are prone to reboot and stale mounts will hang any
process which tries to use them.

-Phil/CERisE

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 04:17:04PM -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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