On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 18:46, Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >Hi Guys, > > > > I have a problem. I want to access a shared directory over a WAN link. > > > >There are 2 methods available to me, NFS and Samba. > > > >Problem is the Client is a Linux Box, and somehow the idea of using > >samba as a means to an end instead of NFS is a little bit weird (?). > > > >But anyway, I tried both and it seems that I have more success using > >samba to mount the share rather than using NFS. > > > >NFS always reports a time-out connecting the server. Yes, there is a > >200ms lag in ping times to the server box (WAN link) > > > >However, Samba seems to be able to handle it more gracefully than NFS. > > > >Ideas?? Comments?? > > > > > > > > > You didn't indicate how the files are used, or what you mean by > access... If realtime shared access to the same files are not necessary > then why don't you use sftp? There is an option for compression that > would help, as well as only needing to open up ssh to make it work. > Alternatively rsync with the -e ssh option may meet your needs. That is an option but not one which I would like to take. I want to use it as a shared directory, one which I can read and write to at will. DL'ing it from the server via HTTP / scp is quite fast ~50k/s but I have no idea why it just feels so lagging via samba/nfs (worst in NFS)
