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

Tom Boucher trekkie at spamcop.net
Fri Jun 27 23:33:58 EDT 2003


On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 01:14 PM, 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
>

Absolutely.  For myself it was the lesser of all evils.  I could attach 
my linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP machines all to the same file server 
with SMB without having to use unsecure ports on NFS or pay for some 
type of NFS client on my Windows machines.




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