samba or nfs?

Hi,
in my factory we are sharing resources (files) among different linux servers,
even located in another site (i.e., using an adsl connection). Which do you
believe is the better sharing protocol (NFS/SAMBA) to mount server resources?
Actually we are using samba, due also to the fact that the line speed was not
very high and NFS seemed to have a few problem with the speed. Now that the
speed is higher, but the line has a few moment of freeze, samba seems to be
inadequate. Any opinion?

Thanks,
Luca
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Re: samba or nfs?

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Hi Luca,

Luca Ferrari:
> Hi,
> in my factory we are sharing resources (files) among different linux
> servers, even located in another site (i.e., using an adsl connection).
> Which do you believe is the better sharing protocol (NFS/SAMBA) to mount
> server resources? Actually we are using samba, due also to the fact that
> the line speed was not very high and NFS seemed to have a few problem with
> the speed. Now that the speed is higher, but the line has a few moment of
> freeze, samba seems to be inadequate. Any opinion?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
I'd always prefer NFS due to native support of Linux and the little config=
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effort. But NFS might be critical in case of security issues, it has no=20
valuable security features.=20

But before you posted your query, I'd have always said that SAMBA is the=20
slower option. How did you recognize the NFS problems? Just for interest...

Have fun,

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Re: samba or nfs?

i use samba. it may have more overhead and be a bit more annoying to
set up, but NFS has been quite troublesome for me, particularly when
the connection speeds were slowish or unstable. quite often i'd have
these dead mounts that couldnt be unmounted by any means and only a
reboot would help.
samba isnt exactly great either, but at least it seems to deal with
network irregularities better.
openafs is a third option that people have recommended to me, which i
have not yet tried.


On 2004.12.16 13:14, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi,
> in my factory we are sharing resources (files) among different linux
> servers,
> even located in another site (i.e., using an adsl connection). Which
> do you
> believe is the better sharing protocol (NFS/SAMBA) to mount server
> resources?
> Actually we are using samba, due also to the fact that the line speed
> was not
> very high and NFS seemed to have a few problem with the speed. Now
> that the
> speed is higher, but the line has a few moment of freeze, samba seems
> to be
> inadequate. Any opinion?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
> --
> Luca Ferrari,
> fluca1978@katamail.com
>
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