On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 10:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Mainly because the alternative everyone wants me to try, cannot be
> made to work, NFS. Any and all attempts to setup an NFS share have
> been met with a 'no permission' response from the server, this box,
> even though I am running as root for 99% of what I do. I come back
> to the list with exact copies of the files you request, and everyone
> goes away shaking their head because they don't have an answer as to
> why I cannot make it work here. Its supposed to Just Work(TM), but
> it doesn't. With all due respect, samba works for everything but
> level sensitive backups, and amanda or rsync steps up to the plate
> and makes a home run everytime.
NFS does 'just work' except perhaps with your configuration and
firewalling. There are some security issues related to NFS but
if you aren't concerned about network users being about to
spoof others you should be able to make it work.
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Les Mikesell
les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
