On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:26, James Wilkinson wrote: > If you're copying to a computer on the public Internet, you should set up > an SSH or VPN tunnel (or just use sftp) to secure this. (Many people > report that sftp is considerably faster than NFS or SMB over high-latency > Internet links. You right in that aspect. NFS and Samba Sucks over WAN links. Even mounting a Samba share using SSH port forwarding. a 4KB vs 100KB difference