Re: newbie question on networking

Bruce Coryell enlightened us alt.linux-(ab)users with:

I take a hybrid approach to networking Windows and Linux, and this
involves using the Services for Unix disk available for free from
Microsoft. This is because of the unreliability of Samba when
networking from Linux to Windows, it works okay going from Windows to
Linux:

We use samba servers at main office (some 100s of win2k and xp clients
connected) and branch offices.
As long as there are no roaming profiles involved (in particular with
illegal filenames in "Recent" folders representing URLs) it works
great.

1. Linux to Windows: I use NFS, setting up my Windows box as an NFS
client (using the SFU disk), and the Linux box as an NFS server. I
then
map drives to Linux filesystems through NFS. Works like a rock.

'nix nfss erver is fine, but how does the SFU client get it's
uid/gid/supplementary group list? I have not been able to make it work
with LDAP yet ...

2. Windows to Linux: SMB (Samba) works okay in this direction. I
set up my Linux box as a Samba client, and define an smbfs mountpoint
in
etc/fstab. This works like a rock, too.

You'd rather switch to cifs client. But then, on a windows hang, you
have unkillable processes on the 'nix and possibly a corrupted windows
filesystem.
--
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on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending
incompatible products. Reactivate MS software.
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