[Samba] SAMBA and NFS

[Eric Boehm]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:49:30PM -0400, bastard operater wrote:
>>>>> "bastard" == bastard operater <bofh1234 at hotmail.com> writes:

    bastard> Thank you for the response.  Would there still be a
    bastard> performance problem if I had two NICs in the PC?  One to
    bastard> connect to the NFS share and the second NIC to connect to
    bastard> the windows PCs?  I am talking about a maximum of 20
    bastard> people connecting to the samba share with at most 5-6
    bastard> people passing data over the share.  The samba server
    bastard> would be a 2.2GHz PC with 512MB of RAM.

I don't think that will help you. I am talking about the overhead of
the two protocols. 

For example, if you were access files via NFS, you might see something
like this

client -> NFS -> NFS server

and for samba

client -> SMB (CIFS) -> Samba server

However, in your example,

client -> SMB (CIFS) -> Samba server -> NFS -> NFS server

The client has to go through two network file systems to get to the
data.


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