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hmm, this doesn't really do it
Sure, there are many ways to transfer files between machines, and HTTP and FTP are perfectly reasonable protocols, but isn't the point of SMB to be able to mount the volume on a Windows machine? i.e., FTP and HTTP are pretty useless if you want to, say, open, edit and save a document. Has anyone found a free Windows NFS client? There seem to be lots of commercial packages, so that's an option if SMB really sucks.
hmm, this doesn't really do it
True, but working with files open over the network isn't necessarily a good idea, especially for speed purposes. The idea here is just for transfers; if you want to edit a document, you can FTP it to your Windows machine, edit the local copy, then FTP it back.
hmm, this doesn't really do it
working with files open over the network isn't necessarily a good idea
Why not? I use AFP between my Macs, and keep a single home directory. Works fine for me (Even opening big Photoshop crap on a mounted AFP volume). If I wasn't going between Macs, I'd use NFS, which many people do for mounting huge volumes. Or, if I was very ambitous, AFS. I agree that FTP/HTTP are fine for your one-way situation (as long as you're not going over an open network, of course), but I still don't think they're a reasonable way to work in a read/write sense on remote files. The copying back and forth seems overly complex when the machines are networked anyway. |
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