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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I think you are asking a question that
reflects an MS mindset. MS has put together an “all-in-one”
protocol. Linux/Unix looks at all these things through different protocols. For
printing, CUPS works nice. For a window environment, XFREE is the key. For file
sharing securely, mount an ssh drive. Ubuntu makes that trivial through the “Connect
to Computer” utility. SMB is also an option. There are utilities to mount
ssh filesystems to windows computers, but the best are not libre. I assume I
don’t need to expound on the security benefits of ssh over nfs or smb?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In most office environments, the networks
sharing such files are assumed to be of a certain trustworthyness so they are
okay and the best solution. For smaller environments like your bedroom, ssh
would work fine.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Basically, you want an all-in-one protocol
when the best solution is to do them individually IMHO. Many network printing
solutions for large windows networks with domains setup implement third-party
solutions somewhere in the printing connection. Remote Desktop, though you didn’t
mention it, is a separate protocol in Win.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If you really want to play with some
powerful programs, check out the world of AFS and its similar protocols. http://www.openafs.org
One of these days I’m going to figure out what that’s all about,
but I don’t have time. If you figure it out, I’d like to hear about
you experience.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>JSR/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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Christiansource-bounces@ofb.biz [mailto:Christiansource-bounces@ofb.biz] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Nathan T.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 30, 2005
1:32 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">A
Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group.</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [CS-FSLUG] Curious about
Linux networks</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
I'm not sure if I've just been using Windows too long, but it seems the only
relatively advanced networking protocol for home networks that I know about is
smb. I do know about NFS, but my only experience with it portrayed it as a very
simple networking system where you count on all the computers on the network to
have users who behave themselves, and no advanced features like printer sharing
are implemented. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying that's all it can
really do, that's simply the extent of my very limited experience with it.<br>
<br>
I would like to know more about the different networking options in Linux,
especially ones that are included with most distributions by default. Third
party protocols such as Novell netware interest me as well, I would like to
know though of one that is very well implemented across Windows, Mac OS X and
Linux, especially if it's easy to set up and configure.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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