I sincerely thank everyone who provided feedback - it was incredibly detailed and helpful. In the meantime, I discovered an alternative approach to achieving a shared setup by using: Windows VirtIO Drivers (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_VirtIO_Drivers) + Virtiofs (https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/) I followed the instructions outlined in this video: https://youtu.be/UCy25VFMJCE?list=LL However, I am now wondering: Would Samba be a more efficient solution? Best regards, Paul On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2025-01-19 at 18:29 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Tip: if you are sharing between Windows machines, > > share on the oldest OS, not the newest. M$ acts > > like a jerk sharing from a new machine to an older > > machine. > > I always tweaked the parameter that determined who would be master > browser to be my Linux server. Having anything that needed rebooting > often (Windows), or wasn't there all the time, caused no end of > trouble. It's appearance would cause a master browser fight, you could > have 15 minutes of no-worky if something transient won that battle, > then later disappeared. > > That kind of shenanigans, plus the mangling of file permissions, caused > me to plump for NFS whereever it was possible. > > -- > > uname -rsvp > Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
