On Sun, 2025-01-19 at 18:29 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Tip: if you are sharing between Windows machines, share on the oldest OS, not the newest. M$ acts like a jerk sharing from a new machine to an older machine.
I always tweaked the parameter that determined who would be master browser to be my Linux server. Having anything that needed rebooting often (Windows), or wasn't there all the time, caused no end of trouble. It's appearance would cause a master browser fight, you could have 15 minutes of no-worky if something transient won that battle, then later disappeared.
That kind of shenanigans, plus the mangling of file permissions, caused me to plump for NFS whereever it was possible.