Desktop Sharing from Windows 8.1

[Tim]

On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 12:16 -0400, Temlakos wrote:
> For that matter, I have yet to find any kind of file-sharing server
> that can compete with Samba. Which is one reason why I install samba
> even to share files with other Linux machines.

I found Samba to be a complete pain to use on Linux, so I haven't used
it for years.  I had to add users to it.  It would mangle permissions
down to the basic Windows ones, unless you configured advanced Samba
options that weren't set by default.  Also, I'd frequently find that it
was dead slow in one direction (one computer could copy files over
quickly, but trying it the other way around, was slower than floppy disc
drives).

I just use NFS, and the autofs thingummy so that any calls
to /net/servername/sharename (replacing servername with the hostname of
the server, and sharename with the name of the exported directory),
simple connects to that exported share without me "mounting" things,
neither manually, nor with fstab (which is horrible for things that
aren't permanent mounts).

-- 
tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp

Linux 3.14.5-200.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jun 2 15:03:19 UTC 2014 i686

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