RE: Samba vs NFS

At 2/23/2005 04:06 PM, Scott Fagg wrote:
 >In my netware days, NSS was just volume management. Is it now being used
 >to described networked filesystems ?

No sales pitch intended here. I just want to point out an alternative and 
get other opinions. Just like the rest of the group.

NSS offer the following file access protocols (NAS protocols) CIFS, NFS, 
AFP, NCP, HTTP, FTP and WebDAV­are supported.

NSS has Rich namespace support­Novell Storage Services manages four 
namespaces simultaneously for the richest cross-platform file system 
available: Windows (case-insensitive), Unix (case-sensitive), Macintosh 
(case-insensitive) and DOS (case-insensitive). Namespace semantics are 
enforced for each namespace independently.

I only point out NSS, because it appears to offer a richer if not stronger 
set of security and access control (more granularity) offerings on the 
back-end than most of the other file systems offer.

<http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/storageservices.html>



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