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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] 3 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Follow-up question:

Is anybody really using NFS?

I have found SMB to be sufficient. The network folder in the file browser is really nice. I don't think NFS has that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (10 children)

NFS is fantastic from a practical standpoint. You can literally specify it in your fstab to mount the network share at boot.

The best part is, there is no latency in waiting for it to mount. It only tries to fetch data once you request a resource from that mount path. Translation: If your network device is asleep, NFS will wake it up for you and fetch the resource on demand.

I love NFS

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

Have they done anything about the lack of security? Last I checked, anyone could mount an NFS share and access it as whatever user they wanted, without authentication.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's a feature! If you can access that share as rw, you should be able to do anything to it IMO. If it's hosted read-only, then no matter what privileges you mount it with, the data is still protected

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