[Gllug] Combining SMB and NFS - was Embedded Linux & 1Gbps?

[DL Neil]

Newbie level question about using NFS and Samba in hetrogenous environment:-


Quoting Matthew King <matthew.king at monnsta.net>:

> "- Tethys" <tethys at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 10/17/07, Thomi Richards <thomir at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Really? Mine seem to run just fine. I haven't observed any noticable
>> performance problems from having NFS mounted home directories on a
>> 100Mb/s network.
>
> I concur. I have no problems at home (where Samba is present too) or in
> slightly larger, officey locations, with 100Mbs NFS.


I read that NFS is more efficient/faster than using Samba - from Linux.

However having Windows machines on the same home network I have only  
set up Samba shares on Linux machines (and native Windows shares on  
the Windows systems - running MS-only apps). Then I discovered that  
some Linux applications (GIMP ? Open Office) don't like to edit files  
across the network/protocol. Oops!

Should I set up the network hosted shared areas to be both SMB and NFS  
spaces? Can one do that? How does this improve things/solve such  
problems?

What's the rationale and usual solution to this, please?
=dn


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