When someone says Unix File Server

[ratkil]

When someone says to they use Unix as a file server, what does that mean? Does that mean they are using Samba or something like it to share filesystems so Windows machines can see them?

 

[Cuular]

It could mean they are using samba, or that they have an nfs client installed on their PC.

We use an NFS client to mount unix filesystems to PC's here.

 

[ratkil]

You can use NFS without Samba? Does NFS do the translation from the Unix filesystem to the windows one?