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[Sheldon Isaac <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

On Sat, 22 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

Sheldon said:
> > You'd been saying that nfs takes a lot of disk space, and that 
> > mcserv might be smaller. 
> 
> mcserv is smaller and simpler than nfs:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> nfs needs:     rpc.portmap   rpc.mountd   rpc.nfsd   /etc/exports
> mcserv needs:  rpc.portmap
> ----------------------------------------------------------------- 
> However, you can do a lot more with nfs.  mcserv only works with mc.  
> nfs can be used with anything (because it actually mounts the remote
> filesystem on the local filesystem).

Sheldon said:
> > last fall you pointed out to someone that nfs was a relatively 
> > compact way, compared with ?? (I forgot what the other ways were)
> 
> I think we were comparing nfs with ftp.  ftp is more difficult to
> configure, and it provides only limited interaction between the 
> remote and local filesystems.  All things considered, nfs is the 
> best option.

Thanks again, Steven!

I'm doing this in a half-assed way, until I get more knowledgable (sp).

I did  ppp-on  to my ISP, and then  telnet unix5.netaxs.com

Am using their  pine  e-mail program for this reply

Sheldon