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Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone !

Right now I can't decide wich one is the most versatile and fit my personal needs, so I'm looking into your personal experience with each one of them, if you mind sharing your experience.

It's mostly for secure shared volumes containing ebooks and media storage/files on my home network. Adding some security into the mix even tough I actually don't need it (mostly for learning process).

More precisely how difficult is the NFS configuration with kerberos? Is it actually useful? Never used kerberos and have no idea how it works, so it's a very much new tech on my side.

I would really apreciate some indepth personal experience and why you would considere one over another !

Thank you !

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

In my personal experience and for my personal needs smb has worked best for me even though it feels kinda "bad" because of the windows background. However that also makes it useful, too, as it is compatible with most os'es...

Security setup is easy. Performance good (in my experience better than sshfs but i am sure sshfs transfers are more secure than smb).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't samba a fork and open source package from Windows's samba/cif ? I think I read something like that on the web, but not sure about that information. So it hasn't anything to do with windows. I may be wrong on that tough !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You can read the history of Samba on The Samba Intro