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CIFS (or equiv.) and security



Yes, because Windows clients do not understand NFS and Samba necessarily
obliterates Unixisms such as file modes.

-- Mike


On 2000-05-18 at 16:24 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Regarding the protocol formerly known as SMB...
> In a small home network with mixed Windoz and Linux systems, does it 
> make sense to use both NFS and Samba, using NFS to mount Linux 
> directories and SMB to mount shares from Windows machines. 


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