On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 16:53, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 18:12, 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?? > ---- > samba/SMB uses UDP whereas NFS uses TCP - hence the issues of speed vs. > reliability. You could probably google the idea of using UDP instead of > TCP on NFS connections but myself, I would opt for reliability. > > Craig also have you tried tweaking the timeo=# & retrans=# values in fstab for the mount? More gory details available at: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?nfs+5 -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
