June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
29h 12m
English
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Chapter 34. File and Print Sharing with Microsoft Windows
IN THIS CHAPTER
NFS is an excellent solution for file sharing between FreeBSD, Linux, and similar systems, where UNIX permissions and file metadata (such as modification times) must be preserved from machine to machine. However, NFS isn’t widely supported on many consumer operating systems. Windows and classic Mac OS support it only through third-party applications, and—more importantly in an enterprise environment—there isn’t any “discovery” mechanism built into NFS to allow clients to browse lists of available servers.
When you put a FreeBSD machine ...