21 May
2006
21 May
'06
2:36 p.m.
Does anyone have any experience of using a network drive with Linux? Nearly all the reasonably priced ones I have seen advertised tell you all about how they appear as a 'local drive' on Windows systems but give no clue as to how/whether they will work with Linux.
One actually appears to be running Samba but that still isn't ideal for Linux.
While I'm asking, if I press an old system into service with a basic Linux OS installed on it how can I network its drives? Can one just mount drives across the local network or does one *have* to run something like NFS or Samba?
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Chris Green (chrisisbd@leary.csoft.net)