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Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by N0x0n@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you're going to have any non-linux clients, samba will be an order of magnitude easier. MacOS handles nfs pretty well, but Windows just wants SMB

[–] walthervonstolzing@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

macOS switched from AFS to samba for file sharing & time machine backups a while ago; it's been a while since I had first-hand experience setting up a Mac, but based on that fact I'm pretty sure samba is more straightforward to use. ... it annoyingly mangles unix file ownership, & permissions though, as mentioned above in https://lemmy.ml/comment/10204431

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 4 points 7 months ago

You don't have to choose just one though. It's perfectly ok to share a directory via Samba for Windows clients and share the same directory again with NFS for Linux clients.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, multi-OS environemment... Thanks for your comment :)

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Samba is also generally supported better than NFS on mobile file managers.

[–] Schmeckinger@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Windows can also use NFS, but you have to enable it in the settings.