Idiots guide to setting up Samba

From: Arthur Prince (arthurp@TOTALISE.CO.UK)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 04:42:36 EDT


All

Thanks for pointing me at Samba for an NFS client. I have downloaded and
installed it. Anyone got a simple guide to configuring it etc? I've looked at
the man pages but am still unsure how to proceed

AP

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>Solution: Run NFS over TCP.
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>IMHO the best software to share Unix filesystems with Windooze machines is
>Samba. NFS suffers from non-reliable connections over UDP (no sequencing,
>no error-connection...). Don't know about Fast Connect but cost-wise it
>doesn't compete with Samba.
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>HTH,
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>Marlon.
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>>> tracylists@YAHOO.COM 06/05/03 15:06 >>>
>I'm probably about the only boob out there that uses
>Fast Connect. No, it is not free, you must purchase
>it. It works ok, but we're not using it on a large
>scale basis.



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