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  From: James Leone <Jleone@pacbell.net>
  To  : LinuxSA (E-mail) <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 20:57:13 -0700

Re: Samba client for Linux

Richard Sharpe wrote:

>
>Hmmm, why use mount_smbfs when you can simply use NFS and the mount 
>command?
>

Well, I don't know anything at all about NFS. Is it possible to mount a 
Samba share with NFS? It sounds like something I would like to learn.

All of our worksations are partitioned, so Linux uses the same shares 
that our Windows 2000 workstations do.

This is also part of a possible migration. Basically, we don't want to 
play 'russian rolette' with Internet email viruses and worms any more - 
so we check our email and surf the Internet from within Linux.  

Since WINE has come so far, I have been able to install a number of 
Windows applications that the company uses into each Linux workstation 
to alleviate some of the inconvenience of rebooting. I just thought it 
would be nice to be able to access the faster Samba server. 

James Leone

>
>
>The smbfs has some issues that you might be better off without.
>
>Regards
>-----
>Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@ns.aus.com, rsharpe@samba.org, 
>sharpe@ethereal.com
>
>




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