File sharing setup

[Colin Law]

On 30 December 2010 17:54, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
> ...
> By the way, is there any advantage to installing the samba server on
> every machine or does this just complicate the setup?

It won't do any harm if you install it on a machine that is not
required to serve files, but there is no point.  It will just sit
there doing nothing much, consuming a small amount of resources (I
guess), in the vain hope that it might be asked to do something at
some point.  I just install it on machines that I setup shares on.

Colin