Re: Windows NFS client to access Linux (Fedora & Suse) hosts

From: R.F. Pels (spamtrap_at_tiscali.nl)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 03:00:52 +0200

natG wrote:

> Samba was designed for Windows shares and therefore carries
> Windows/netbios baggage (performance wise) with it.

Heh. My experience tells me that Samba is quite some quicker as a Windows
server sharing volumes through the same method. Definitely feels snappier.

> Do folks actually use Samba for Linux-only networks? One of the Linux
> hosts is also a J2EE server, and I don't want it to incure extra Samba
> overhead memory/cpu unless absolutely required.

Yes you do. One, the overhead isn't that much, two, you can share disk space
over SMB while at the same time sharing it via NFS. 

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Ruurd
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