Summary
Elsolutions requires a simple, reasonably high-performance network file sharing solution for its internal needs. The solution should not require client setup and should be flexible enough to add and remove clients without visiting the client machine. Because the performance of Samba is very good, it is well documented, and the development community supports it aggressively, we will choose to use Samba running on Linux for all our file sharing needs. That oesn't mean that ad hoc Windows sharing won't happen. It means that for the documented corporate development and file-sharing environment, Samba will be the supported choice.
This chapter has reviewed briefly some of the network file systems available on Linux and Windows. There are others, ...
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