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nofrak
June 22nd, 2007, 05:57 PM
If we didn't live in a windows world, what would we user for network file systems? As I understand, Samba, OpenAFS, and NFS are all just ways to plug-in to existing proprietary solutions. So what's the free solution?

Or let me ask this way: If I'm setting up a Linux-only office, what do I use for network files?

runningwithscissors
June 22nd, 2007, 06:11 PM
Not really.

All three protocols have free software implementations, with Samba and NFS being in active production use.

You can use either to serve up shares.

prizrak
June 22nd, 2007, 06:51 PM
AFAIK NFS is older than Samba and has been used on UNIX for a while. Sharing resources over the network is a very old idea that arose pretty much at the same time that networks with full fledged machines did. Technically FTP can be used as a network file system :)