G'day Rod

15 Jun 04 13:56, Rod Gasson wrote to All:


 >> but it works OK...

 RG> I have to amend that to "It works OK, when it works" ;-)

I've never had any problems with it. Under what circumstances does it not work?

 >>  RG> Unfortunetly it is also about the only means of filesharing 
 >>  RG> between Linux and Windows available, as such, we just
learn to live 
 >>  RG> with it.
 >>
 >> FTP?

 RG> FTP is OK, but it doesn't have the same drag 'n' drop from the 
 RG> desktop usability that the SMB shares have.

True - do you know of a (free) NFS client for Winfows?

 RG> Example, we have all of our MP3 files stored in a directory on one of 
 RG> our Linux boxes. We share this directory using NFS shares with our other 
 RG> linux boxes, as well as SMB shares for the windoze boxes.  This way we can 
 RG> play these MP3 files using any media player on any of our machines 
 RG> (Windoze or Linux).  This wouldn't be possible if FTP was our only
option as we'd 
 RG> need to FTP the files from the linux box to the windoze box before we 
 RG> could play them.

I too keep all of my MP3s on a Linux box - shared with SAMBA. I don't have
any problems with it at all...

Regards,
David

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