Network File Systems

[Ralph W. Reid]

I use short-term nfs mounts of directory trees for performing backups
and upgrading software across my LAN.  Nfs has worked quite well for
me in this capacity.

HTH, and have a great day.

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> I'm curious what others here on the list might use for sharing file
> systems over a local area network.  I'm mainly talking about going
> between different Linux boxes.  Obviously, I use Samba for connecting my
> Linux clients to Windows machines.  But I wonder about the merit of
> using Samba to share between Linux boxes or if I should use NFS instead.
> 
> Curious minds want to know:).
> 
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