NFS/Samba alternatives?

Are there any decent alternatives to NFS and Samba when it comes to
remote mounts? Both are quite awful at dealing with mounts over
unreliable or slow lines. Last I checked Coda seemed quite incomplete
and complicated. Any other suggestions?
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Re: NFS/Samba alternatives?

urgrue wrote:

> Are there any decent alternatives to NFS and Samba when it comes to
> remote mounts? Both are quite awful at dealing with mounts over
> unreliable or slow lines. Last I checked Coda seemed quite incomplete
> and complicated. Any other suggestions?

Actually, I'd recommend NFS for its use of UDP for communications. It's
hard to predict what behavior you want when the connection has
problems. Have you looked through the nfs mount options in the mount
man page? The 'soft', and 'timeo=' options are very useful.

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Re: NFS/Samba alternatives?

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:12 urgrue's cat walking on the keyboard wrote:

> Are there any decent alternatives to NFS and Samba when it comes to
> remote mounts? Both are quite awful at dealing with mounts over
> unreliable or slow lines. Last I checked Coda seemed quite incomplete
> and complicated. Any other suggestions?

Well, I'm succesful using SAMBA other ISDN lines and it works fine, better
than NFS, that seems to require more bandwith. Nevertheless, maybe AFS can
help you.

Luca

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