Do you use NFS / Samba to mount your linux file system onto Windows?

[kldang]

Hi all

I have a linux box and I need to exchange files between my windows and linux. I found there are 2 different ways to mount the linux file system onto windows. They are NFS & Samba. Anyone know the performance comparison?

Thanks

 

[Bremen]

Windows dosn't support NFS so this should make your decision rather easy :0)

 

[Netopia]

I install Webmin and create my samba shares from there.

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Bremen
Windows dosn't support NFS so this should make your decision rather easy :0)

I believe both Cygwin and Unix Services For Windows has NFS servers/clients. 😉

I'd use Samba. NFS sucks more for most things, and even more when going between Windows and a unix-like system.

 

[sourceninja]

Hell I use samba at home for linux to linux sharing. I only use NFS for some very rare things here at work.

 

[kldang]

Originally posted by: Bremen
Windows dosn't support NFS so this should make your decision rather easy :0)

Microsoft do have a software to support NFS

I just found this document. This is the reason why I am interested to use NFS now. I used to use Samba only.
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/MountNFS

 

[M00T]

Go with samba. There's a lot of documentation/examples/help to be found on google for it.

 

[Nothinman]

NFS can be tricky because it requires the UIDs all be in sync since each mount is system-wide and authorization is done locally instead of on the server. With Windows this means you have to map unix UIDs to Windows accounts and I don't know how well that works now, I just remember trying it a few years ago and it was a huge PITA that never worked right.

 

[drag]

yeop.

NFS and Windows don't mix. Use Samba.

 

[Nothinman]

NFS and Windows don't mix. Use Samba.

They can, it just takes more stirring.