The Great Shared Directory Dilemma

[Kevin Fries]

Old habits die hard, cifs is what I ment.  I find SMB/CIFS to be more
reliable than NFS.  Spent far too often fixing Stale NFS handles, but
almost never a crashed Samba server.   NFS4 is much better than NFS3, but
still crashes far too often for my liking.

Speed for stability... age old argument huh?

Kevin
On Oct 18, 2012 8:57 AM, "Matt Graham" <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:

> From: Kevin Fries
> > But on the Linux machines, make sure smbfs is installed.  This will
> > allow the Linux boxes to simply mount the samba share the same way
> > it mounts NFS.
>
> smbfs is deprecated and should not be used.  Its replacement is cifs.  Like
> so:
>
> mount -t cifs //BORG/SHARE /mnt/borg -o domain=WORKGROUP,user=JOEBOB
>
> ...will find the share SHARE on the machine BORG and attempt to mount it on
> mountpoint /mnt/borg using the user JOEBOB from domain WORKGROUP.  It'll
> ask
> you for a password if one's required.  You may be able to leave the domain=
> off if your 'Doze network doesn't use domains.
>
> IME, NFS is faster than Samba, which may be something to think about.
>
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