[Samba] NFS versus SAMBA

[Christian Barth]

> Op di 28-05-2002, om 13:16 schreef Francis Adegbile:
> > Hi Guys
> > I have been tasked to produce a paper on why we should use SAMBA
> > instaed of jus bog-standard NFS. Can you direct me to somewhere on
> > your site where the info on this kind of comparison might be readily
> > available.
> 
> I think it is very simple. If you use Windows in your network you HAVE
> to use Samba. If all the computers in the network understand NFS you
> SHOULD NOT use Samba.

One thing to note in this comparison: NFS uses a per host based 
authentisication, samba uses a per user based authentisication. This 
is way NFS has to trust its clients, whiele samba has not. This has a 
couple of effects we you at the university:

The two departments of our institute have a seperate account 
managment, we only agree on ranges of nummeric uids for each 
department: This way we can have a commen NFS shared disk. 

Our central computer department offers unix accounts with disk space 
and printing for everybody. But they surly do not let every linux pc 
of a student give the permission to do a NFS mount. They have to use 
smbfs.

Christian

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