[ale] public sharing of folders on linux - newbie question

[Ted W]

On 01/25/2013 10:32 AM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On 1/25/13 10:23 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Easiest way is to run httpd on your system and put public docs for 
>> read-only in ~/public_html
>>
>> If remote people _have_ to read-write stuff, then it's a bit 
>> trickier: NFS or samba (CIFS). NFS is standard *NIX way and windows 
>> users can't access it.You can use CIFS (samba) and windows users can 
>> access. You _can_ use both at the same but the file locking for 
>> writes get messy. *NIX _can_ access CIFS files pretty easy but 
>> windows has a hard time with NFS files.
> At one time there was an MS add-on - "Services for UNIX" or some such, 
> and I can't remember if it was zero-cost or not and even if I 
> remembered correctly that status may have changed - that made mounting 
> NFS volumes possible from Windows clients.  But, as Bob Toxen once 
> impressed upon me years ago, *all NFS implementations are at least a 
> little broken*. :)
>
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I never recommend "Services for UNIX". Last time we tried to enable it, 
it borked our Active Directory like I've never seen...

Samba 4 was just released I believe and it was promising some nice 
enhancements, it might be worth looking in to.