RE: Samba vs NFS
"Scott Fagg" <[email protected]>
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Samba does work across routers if you use TCP/IP instead of NetBEUI. There are currently 3 routers between my windows desktop and my samba server at the moment, and none of them are doing anything special. What's the state of NFSv4 ? regards, scott ________________________________ From: net shark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed 23-Feb-05 3:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Samba vs NFS IMHO both have a dark history when it comes to security. In the old days NFS was a nightmare; in recent years samba has shown more holes, especially serious remote buffer overflows, which lead to root compromise. From the performance point of view, NFS used to be a joke, as it flooded the network with keepalives, and although samba used broadcasts, it managed to be better than NFS. NFS version 3 is quite another story. It can successfully compete with samba when it comes to performance issues. There are tests that show that NFSv3 is generally better than samba. Samba uses a layer of non routable protocols (Netbios). It doesn't work between networks, without a NAT helper or some sort of tricks that emulate a samba proxy. On the other hand NFS is quite happy with working between networks. There are other options on this field like coda, AFS, etc... Hope it helps, Alex