[geeks] WTH* - access SMB shares from OS X

Joshua D Boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 26 14:15:18 CST 2001


On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:03:05PM -0800, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > I do it like this:
> > 
> > smb://chip.mrbill.net/mrbill
> > 
> > (chip is the sunblade 1000 on the other side of the room running Samba..)
> 
> Of course, it's much easier to do it as nfs:// 

Is there any advantage to using CIFS instead of NFS for anything (assuming that
you have a choice).  For instance, what about file system ACLs, would NFS
interfere with those?  CIFS certainly doesn't.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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