Sharing a hard disk on the network NFS of Samba?

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Felipe DOMINGUEZ
<felipe.dominguez at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Felipe

> I would like to share a hard disk on the network, I have tried with samba,
> and follow the instruction on the ubuntu documentation. it works to share a
> local folder on the computer but it does not work to share the mounted hard
> disk.

Samba certainly does 'work'.  I found your question from before and
added some info.  If you choose to persue Samba hopefully that gets
you going in the right direction.

> Then reading around I discover that it may be better to use NFS, and event
> that there is an NFS over TCP instead of UDP which is faster than samba and
> more reliable. Is it this true?

NFS might be slightly faster than Samba, some of the time.  The
difference isn't that big.  Pick one or the other based on whether you
need to talk to a Windows box, and which ever one makes more sense to
you.

For your purposes, don't worry about TCP vs UDP with NFS.  Take the
default setup and be done with it.  It's not worth changing it. The
guys that wrote NFS knew what they were doing.


> can you recommend a nice NFS tutorial? again I have found many, is just that
> some of them date on 2002, and I know there are new versions NFS.
>
> When can I get good and updated documentation on NFS?

Short one http://czarism.com/easy-peasy-ubuntu-linux-nfs-file-sharing
Longer one https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo


Brian