Samba between Mac and BSD

[Chuck Swiger]

Joel Rees wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:11:11PM -0700, esayer1 at san.rr.com wrote:
[ ... ]
>> I would think that NFS would be a better choice between two Unix
>> systems than Samba.
> 
> To which I might add that netatalk would seem to me to be a better
> option than Samba if the only client is a Mac. 
> 
> But then I've never done netatalk on freeBSD.

NFS is an entirely reasonable choice for filesharing against OS X; netatalk 
would be a comparitively better choice for MacOS 9 and previous versions. 
People who have laptops or other network roaming environments will probably 
prefer Samba.  [How's that for providing a fair slant on what each protocol is 
well-suited for? :-)]

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-Chuck