On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Jean-Frangois wrote:
I am mounting network drives. Would you recommand the use of NFS or SAMBA for home use ?
What would you be serving to? PC Boxen? MacOS X? Linux? Another OpenBSD box? Both protocols are appropriate for similar - but not entirely the same - setups.
For both performance and security, please advise your recommandations.
NFS is horribly insecure. By default it's just bad with little to no authentication for the user outside of standard UNIX permissions. It's fairly fast though, limited more by the capability of your network than by the protocol itself. Samba, while somewhat more secure than NFS, is very slow. While I don't like it, I do use it very heavily since it's supported by all OSs and all systems I have to interact with on the IT side of things.
