Subj : A rather general question
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Fri Jul 16 2004 06:04 pm

Hello Roy.

15 Jul 04 12:07, you wrote to me:

 RT> Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT>> Lately I've been trying to do stuff with nfs.  It's working out
 RT>> so far,  but there are times when it gets cumbersome.  In kmail,
 RT>> for example,  I will go to enter or leave a given mail folder and
 RT>> the LAN will appear to saturate,  according to what I see on the
 RT>> light on the hub,  and the indications in top on the other end.
 RT>> And it's *slow* at that point.  I may need to find a better
 RT>> approach to this.

 RT>> Samba?

 RT> Why?  You're not the first one to suggest this,  but...

Why, because, it works, and I have not had any joy with NFS, maybe, I just 
don't understand it, so path of least resistance is to use samba which works 
for me, with minimal hassles

Russell

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