On 01/15/2005 09:23:45 PM, Trevor Smith wrote:
Now, what is the simplest way to actually "network" the two machines? Samba? (I hope not, since setting it up would not be what I'd call "simple".) Something easier?
This may not be best for your scenario, but for unix networks that don't need to give/have access to Windows, I do NFS.
I don't have a current OS X install, but OS X PB, 10.0, and 10.1 were all able to succesfully mount and use an NFS server I had running from a RH 7.2 box back in the days when I did use OS X.
That's not a good solution for wireless imho (too slow) and there may be issue if you don't have an NFS box dedicated to be on 24/7
Another possibility that I have used instead of samba is webDAV - you can have pretty fine grained permissions with webDAV via apache, both OS X and Linux will mount them as a network volume on the desktop, and Windows can connect as well, though the Windows client tends to be slow. In Linux you can use webDAV over https, I had trouble with that in OS X through the finder, but DAVExplorer (a java program) did it just fine, in both OS X and Windows.
