RE: Samba vs NFS

Samba does work across routers if you use TCP/IP instead of NetBEUI. There are 
currently 3 routers between my windows desktop and my samba server at the 
moment, and none of them are doing anything special.
 
What's the state of NFSv4 ? 
 
regards,
scott

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From: net shark [mailto:netshark@sexmagnet.com]
Sent: Wed 23-Feb-05 3:43 AM
To: focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Samba vs NFS



IMHO both have a dark history when it comes to security. In the old days NFS
was a nightmare; in recent years samba has shown more holes, especially
serious remote buffer overflows, which lead to root compromise.

> From the performance point of view, NFS used to be a joke, as it flooded the
network with keepalives, and although samba used broadcasts, it managed to
be better than NFS.

NFS version 3 is quite another story. It can successfully compete with samba
when it comes to performance issues. There are tests that show that NFSv3 is
generally better than samba.

Samba uses a layer of non routable protocols (Netbios). It doesn't work
between networks, without a NAT helper or some sort of tricks that emulate a
samba proxy.
On the other hand NFS is quite happy with working between networks.

There are other options on this field like coda, AFS, etc...

Hope it helps,

                        Alex