On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 12:11:36PM -0500, chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net wrote:
I want to be able to see the drives from various systems. Samba is the obvious answer for Windows systems but I wondered if there was something simpler for a Linux to Linux connection as smbclient for Linux always strikes me as a bit of a bodge somehow.
It's it's a full time share, and you want to keep the permissions across it, and want to mount for multiple users... NFS is the way forwards. At work we use an NFS root filesystem with LDAP authentication to keep the users in sync, works rather well until the network breaks - fortunately we don't have that often :)
I have used sshfs across the internet to a remote system, it works well, I suppose it would be OK across the local network and would work faster.
sshfs is good for single user access, and not too bad over a LAN or wireless connection - I use it because my laptop is on a wireless connection and I'd rather not use NFS over the wireless ;)
Cheers, Brett.