[Samba] Which version do I need for SMB2?

[John Klimek]

Darn, OK.

Last question then...

What about NFS versus SMB?  Are both about the same speed?

(By the way, I'm an MSDN subscriber so W2K8 was actually "free" for me...)

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Volker
Lendecke<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:26:57PM -0400, John Klimek wrote:
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "try linux-cifs".  Are you suggesting I
>> create local mount points using linux-cifs as the filesystem type?
>
> You referred to it as "linux-cifs", I just followed your
> wording. I mean you should use the Linux filesystem type
> "cifs" in your fstab or use the "-t cifs" argument to the
> Linux mount command.
>
>> I'm willing to upgrade so that's not really a big issue.  I just need
>> to know which version to upgrade to (eg. Samba3 or Samba4)
>
> Samba3 or 4 won't help you at all for this, you need the
> proper kernel support.
>
>> I've heard that before as well but I've also heard/seen benchmarks
>> where SMB2 is much, much faster than SMB1.  However, like you said,
>> perhaps it's due to SMB optimizations.
>>
>> Do you suggest I stick with Samba3 v3.3.2 and just use SMB?
>>
>> I'd really prefer to use SMB2 (if possible) especially since I
>> upgraded to Windows Server 2008 almost specifically for this feature
>> but if you are telling me that Samba3 (v3.3.2) will provide me almost
>> exactly the same performance than I'll stick with that.  However, if I
>> need to optimize my configuration (versus no additional optimization
>> with Samba4?) than that's a different story.
>>
>> Thanks so much for your help!
>
> Sorry to say that, but you got caught by Microsoft marketing
> for completely non-reasons. Upgrading to Windows 2008 just
> to support Linux clients better is -- well -- not going to
> help you at all. You better read your license agreement if
> you can return the W2k8 license :-)
>
> Volker
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