[Discussion] Thinking of going IMAC

[Felmon Davis]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Mark Brueggemann wrote:

> Linux is a real pill.  I've tried half a dozen distributions and only
> one so far works with the server 100%.  My linux mentor says
> I need to read up on Samba.  The man page for that is only about
> 200 pages long.  I guess I'm not a true linux believer, since I 
> expect basic services to work out of the box. 

I had the impression Samba was a bit of a moving target. btw what 
version of RedHat or Samba are you using? mostly curious, I'm no 
Samba-man.

> Seems like NFS might be an option for Linux and eCS but there's
> no client built into windoze for that, and would still leave me to 
> solve networking the printer. 

I can't speak to the printer issue but have you tried ssh? Windows has 
several clients - 'winscp' I believe the one I've used is called. it 
seems very well-behaved.

Linux to linux, I use something called 'sshfs' which allows me to 
mount drives remote. don't bother though if your RedHat is ancient.

-- 
Felmon Davis

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
		-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982