[Samba] Is Samba useful in an all-Linux environment?

[Henrik Dige Semark]

Steve Litt skrev:
> On Monday 17 August 2009 15:55:34 John Drescher wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Eero Volotinen<eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote:
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>>> Steve Litt kirjoitti:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> This isn't meant to be a troll. It's a legitimate question asked because
>>>> I haven't done much with Samba for 9 years.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything Samba can contribute to an all-Linux environment with
>>>> no Windows or Mac computers?
>>>>         
>>> Well, atleast it is more secure than nfsv3 ?
>>>       
>> That along with better performance and also better handling of
>> disconnections are a couple of reasons to use samba/cifs over nfs3.
>>     
>
> How about performance and security of Samba vs. NFS4 on an all Linux network?
>   
Samba is definitely more secure then NFS but performance wise it is 
definitely my expiration that NFS is much fasten with small files, but 
about the same on big files.

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>
> SteveT
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