RE: Samba vs NFS

From: net shark (netshark_at_sexmagnet.com)
Date: 02/22/05

  • Next message: Raul Dias: "Re: Samba vs NFS" 
    To: <focus-linux@securityfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:43:07 -0000

    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

  • Next message: Raul Dias: "Re: Samba vs NFS"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: [SLE] Duelling SAMBAs
      ... >> another NFS server goes away. ... you're reduced to using something like samba as a server ... and the Linux-to-Linux situations? ...
      (SuSE)
    • Re: Problem setting up NFS on Ubuntu
      ... >>> mount' for vfat mount options. ... >>> exporting vfat via NFS, it's not designed for multiuser systems ... > alike on the FS and use samba to export it to doze clients. ... >> which should make windows client access easier, and does work also from RISC ...
      (comp.os.linux.setup)
    • Re: kern.ngroups question
      ... NFS only supports this much by default. ... Samba ... I just had to deal with this limitation and it was quite annoying to say ... unsigned int stamp; ...
      (freebsd-hackers)
    • Re: [SLE] Duelling SAMBAs
      ... the statement that they'd used both SAMBA and NFS and that SAMBA ... Linux boxes, but if I'm already going to have SAMBA running, what ... if the wife wants Windows, ...
      (SuSE)
    • Re: Windows NFS client to access Linux (Fedora & Suse) hosts
      ... Larry I Smith wrote: ... >> Windows requirement is temporary, ... Why learn Samba (under pressure to ... when we need to get up to par on nfs anyhow. ...
      (comp.os.linux)