Re: Access to hard drives over a network

philicorda <philicordaNOSPPPAAAAAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:40:57 -0400, Randy Yates wrote:

kludge@xxxxxxxxx (Scott Dorsey) writes:

Andre Majorel <cheney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-10-25, Randy Yates <yates@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I use NFS to share some photos between my computer and my wife's
(both Fedora boxes) and I would NOT recommend it to the
faint-of-heart. Even for me, it was a bit painful to setup.

Configuring Samba was not significantly easier for me than configuring
NFS.

They both are pretty easy.

Easy for whom? A certified IT administrator? Yeah, MAYBE.

Ubuntu is somewhat easier.
You right click on a folder and select 'Sharing Options'.
If you don't have NFS or SMB installed, then it grabs them from the net.

Then a dialog box opens and you click 'Ok'. The rest of the configuration
is automatic.

There is even a tick box marked 'Guest access - for people without a user
account'. Not good for a webserver. Good for a home user who wants it to
work right now.

There is lots that could still go wrong, but I think they have made some
progress.

An excellent point. I'm actually running Ubuntu (8.04LTS) on my laptop
and have been VERY impressed with it - especially the ease in wireless
networking setup.
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