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Im just wondering if there is any reason to have NFS running if i already have Samba running. I mean, my other linux computers can connect to the samba shares so is there any point in me running NFS?

Or if i have one share that i only want one of my linux machines to use (i can limit access to its IP in samba) should i use NFS?

Whats the difference between Samba and NFS... other then windows can use Samba stuff, etc.

NFS is more the *NIX way. Samba is more the Windows way. Usually if you have *NIX->*NIX connections you would use NFS. You can also restrict any NFS share to a specific IP address (man exports). I really have no use for Samba at all now that I am 100% linux at home. At work I use NFS for Linux->Linux->UNIX->UNIX->Linux. I use Samba for Linux->Windows->UNIX->Windows->Linux.

NFS makes file permissions work properly on *NIX. But it is pretty aged, I want NFS2.

Tux wrote:NFS makes file permissions work properly on *NIX. But it is pretty aged, I want NFS2.

NFS2? I assume you mean something other than "NFSv2" because we're using NFSv2 and NFSv3 in Linux and other unices now. NFS v4 is in the works and I believe there are some implementations of that already in the works. If you really mean NFS2 I have not heard of it and am interested to learn more about it.

I think I mean v4, I lose track of all these version numbers, acronyms, names, places and what not