On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 17:36 -0700, Vitaliy wrote:
> Byron Jeff wrote:
> > Shared files: NFS (not Samba):
> > http://czarism.com/easy-peasy-ubuntu-linux-nfs-file-sharing
> 
> Byron, I'm curious -- why not?

2 main reasons I can think of:

1. NFS is "native" to linux, for example you can easily create diskless
machines that access everything over NFS.
2. NFS supports all the native FS stuff, i.e. group and user
permissions. Using SMB results in confusing and annoying permission
issues that can be a bear to deal with, never mind the loss of the
wonderful security that user and group permissions can give you.

Frankly, unless you NEED to connected to a windows machine there's no
reason to even have samba installed.

TTYL

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