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 !

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      10·
      5 months ago

      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

      • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 months ago

        I’m so used to SMB and SSH, especially with the file manager integration. I was wondering if we have something similar with nfs.

      • LaggyKar@programming.dev
        21·
        5 months ago

        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.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 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

    • N0x0n@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      5 months ago

      I read/heard that alot of NAS server users tend to use NFS shares :/ Don’t actually know why, but that’s what I found out while reading server/NAS configurations on the web.

      Maybe because NFS’s speed compared to samba and SSHFS?