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From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Network File Systems


> Yeah, in some ways, I find Samba easier to set up too.  My only
> complaint right now is all the files I copy onto a Samba share end up
> with the execute bit set on.  That plays havic with mplayer when I wanna
> play sound files.  Actually, it's mc that has trouble with the execute
> bit on sound files.  When I use mc to browse a directory, I have it set
> up to where I can hit the enter key on a file and mplayer plays it; if
> execut bit is on, that doesn't work for some reason.

Is that because it is trying to execute it? Linux has no extentions 
depicting the file as a program.

> Anyway, that's
> just one of the pit-falls of using SMB to share files.  I might be able
> to find a way around this problem though.
>
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 06:56:56PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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>> Though I've used nfs in the passed when running a diskless box a good
>> while ago, I use samba here nowadays, since that means I can also
>> share files and my printer between windows machines as well, and I
>> can't use nfs on windows of course, not right out of the box anyway.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
>> > I'm curious what others here on the list might use for sharing file
>> > systems over a local area network.  I'm mainly talking about going
>> > between different Linux boxes.  Obviously, I use Samba for connecting 
>> > my
>> > Linux clients to Windows machines.  But I wonder about the merit of
>> > using Samba to share between Linux boxes or if I should use NFS 
>> > instead.
>> >
>> > Curious minds want to know:).
>> >
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