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On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:39, Simon Waters wrote: > > NFSv4 happily uses Kerberos with GSS which is exactly the same sort of > thing that Windows does with CIFS. Stop living in the NFSv2 world ;) > When NFS v4 appeared in Debian I tried to make it work and failed. It seems a lot more complicated that previous versions and it just seems a lot easier and quicker to stick with v3. Maybe I should give it another try. > > Being written by Microsoft does not mean that that it is a bad protocol. > > But it is a "bad" protocol, in that it is chatty, complex, difficult to > understand, and has evolved meanderingly over time, and as a result is > slow, and with variable quality of interoperability. > I'll have to take your word for that. Jeremy Allison thinks Samba is the best thing out there, although being the guy who wrote it he may be biased ;-) > NFS was on the other hand is comparatively lightweight (I can hear older > folks laughing), based on a couple of relatively clean technologies ONC > RPC, and VFS. So it was easy to change the behaviour of various layer, > such as securing ONC RPC. > > The problem was getting everyone to play the same way, and interoperably. One of the reasons I like Samba is that I find it easier to set-up and (more importantly) make secure. If NFSv4 fixes this, maybe I'll change my mind and start using NFS more. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html