The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

[Matrix Mole]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Wayne Davis <waydavis at centurylink.net>wrote:

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> Ive wanted to share NTFS and EXT4 directories amongst several machines.
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If the Win 7 machines are either Ultimate or Enterprise edition, then all
you need is NFS to share files among all the systems. If the Win 7 systems
are anything less than those two variants, then you'll need to have Samba
installed. If you need to use Samba, then it's server component needs to be
configured and running on each Linux machine that needs to share their file
structure to the Windows systems.

Most modern Linux distros have NFS available out of the box for both client
and server format (after a brief configuration). You'll need NFS server on
each machine that has directories that need shared, and configure the
/etc/fstab file for each machine that will mount NFS shares into their file
system.

My recommendation is to have one Linux machine be the "file server" and
have it run both NFS and Samba Servers and then the other systems all mount
it's file structure and keep as much storage on that file server. Obviously
that recommendation is only good if you've got the spare space on the file
server.
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