Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 14:49, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > >> To access Windows shares, double-click on the Windows Network (SMB) >> object. A list of the Windows shares available to you is displayed >> in the file manager window. >> >> > Small comment - I think this is somewhat misleading, as samba can equally well > handle linux shares. I use it on a mixed lan, no nfs, linux > windows > > linux and Linux < > linux. > > I use kde. For some reason I can't access any of the samba shares from the > network browser in the konqueror sidebar, but I have a tray applet icon that > gives me instant access to all network shares. > > If you can't get nfs to do what you want, you could try this way. > > Anne > Thanks, Anne, my problem is: I can get basically any linux distro to do what's possible. Right now, I am in the middle of testing and evaluating FC5 which is a new distro to me. (I do these evaluations for a living). Now before I give FC5 a "D" for not supporting NFS servers properly out of the box, so "normal" users are forced into editing fstab, I want to doublecheck through this mailing list, whether this flaw can be fixed or if we have got just a case, where the help docs claim some functionality that is just not there, not even with extra repos. The disadvantage of using smb (cifs) over nfs on a linux server is at least twofold: slower transfers and higher cpu usage on the server when going samba. FMF
