which filesharing protocol?

[mistafeesh]

Hi,

I have a small home/office network, which currently consists of a very old mac running osx10.4, a ******* 7 laptop and an ubuntu 10.04/******* vista laptop, along with a homebrew setup on a wii which understands smb.

I'm in the process of setting up an additional ubuntu PC which will, among other things act as a file and web server, mainly for web development and for sharing files, music and videos.

Up until now I've just run everything on SMB, and I will have to set samba up on the new server, but I would prefer to use a different protocol for the ubuntu and mac systems, as SMB doesn't recognise/create file permissions properly and it takes a while sometimes to notice new files in folders it's recently looked in.

any suggestions?

[surfer]

i have never tried it. but what about WebDAV?

[Boondoklife]

If you really have your heart bent on moving, try nfs, I think it can work on all three with the right software.