On Fri, 28 May 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 07:04, Anthony J Placilla wrote:
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??
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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.
I thought its the other way arround. NFS is primarly udp based
(however newer versions have an option to configure it over tcp). And
I've tunneled SMB over ssh - and I'm pretty sure SMB is over tcp.
The advantage of SMB is the connection/auth is at the user level -
instead of root level. The big problem with SMB is - it doesn't
preserve unix permissions.
However FC2 has support for CIFS - and apparently if 'unix extensions'
are enabled on samba side - then the file permissions are
preserved. With my limited usage of cifs - things were not working
that well with FC2 (test releases).
Satish
