[TriLUG] samba vs. webdav on small mixed-os networks?

[John Beimler]

Ryan Leathers wrote:

>Its pretty hard to beat smb for the simple fact that just about
>everything can deal with it.  I guess its the lowest common denominator
>approach to heterogeneous file sharing
>  
>

I've found that WebDAV works much better than smb for file sharing on 
our WAN, the underlying http is much more tolerant to the latency and 
packet drops than SMB.

Peace.

john