RE: Samba vs NFS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory D. Rosenberg [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, 24 February 2005 8:46 AM
> To: Scott Fagg; Raul Dias; Avery Payne
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: 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 WebDAV-are supported.

While NSS may be a great file-system, it would still be at the mercy of
the limitations or capabilities of the. e.g. An NFSv3 client would not
necessarily be able to take advantage of ACLs on the source filesystem.

> 
> NSS has Rich namespace support-Novell 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/storagese
> rvices.html>
> 
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