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Old 09-04-2001, 03:18 AM   #1
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nfs and smbfs issue


what is the difference between nfs and smbfs and how are u suposed to know what resources are available for accessing on both samba and nfs servers.
 
Old 09-05-2001, 10:51 AM   #2
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NFS is Sun's Network File System - a way of sharing file between (traditionally) Unix machines, where as smbfs is a network share name available via Microsofts SMB (server message broker) protocol... NFS is nicer for Linux boxes as it has proper support for Unix file permissions and owners.

As for finding out what shares are available - I'm not really sure... For SMB shares you can browse to the machine in Network Neighbourhood under Windows of the Linux equivilent (Lin Neighbourhood????)

HTH

Jamie...
 
Old 09-05-2001, 11:13 AM   #3
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smbclient -L hostname will lists all shares on a hosts (assuming access is granted)
 
Old 09-07-2001, 01:06 PM   #4
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thanks

thanks for the nice piece of information.
 
  


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