Re: "Sharing" files in Linux

Coming at this from the opposite direction of Tim
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>So if a guy was going to setup Linux in a "workgroup" way, like you
>might setup Windows...what would be the standard way of doing this?

I think it is called a private network. Start with a dual homed firewall box and
keep all the local traffic local. I think this is a little different then a
workgroup. My sense is a workgroup is more public. Can someone give me a working
definition of a "workgroup"?

>I would suppose NFS, or SMB. Anyone have any experience with this?

For making a common data set available as network drives or mounted filesystems,
those would be starting points. In most shops you will probably need to run both
because linux nfs does not play well with other OS's including other flavors of
unix. However nfs is worth having because you can preserve the linux
ownership/permissions very easily and you can get pretty good performance on
both reads and writes.

So to start all linux boxes probably need:
 nfs server and client
 smbclient
 
   
>There was also a question about, how might you setup an enterprise.
>Many workstation, one server.

What would be served? Mail, data, apps? Are your apps on a propietary OS? Are
they hardware locked?

 If you can live with linux applications, it would be a lot less complex. You
can export your display pretty easily to run your application on a remote
machine with an Xserver. That's the beauty of it. If you have a linux box under
your desk and you want to work on windows applications, one needs wine vmware or
win4lin to run windows apps on local workstations. However I don't know how
remote sessions work on windows , you might need vnc. VNC allows you to start a
session on a remote windows box running vnc server from any vnc client, but
network transactions are irritatingly slow and I am not sure how many session
you can have open. I think they all share the same desktop.
 
 What about your data? Is it changing rapidly? Who can write data? Databases
argue for file serving as opposed to simpler sharing.

>How about starting a design conversation?

I agree with Mac a lot of the design is tied to your needs. For what we do it
works well to have reasonable computational power w/ some disk space for users,
but maintain access to resources network wide, like data and the serious
computing power of the cluster. An egalitarian network with easy access to the
unique and/or expensive resources.

What are directory services?

- Karl

>Mike
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