[Wylug-discuss] EeePC and Samba

[Paul Brook]

> For networks with simple security requirements, NFS is very easy to setup,
> and is very reliable.

FWIW in my experience NFS is not "very reliable". We have a variety of 
machines with cross-mounted NFS shares, and a NAS-based /home via NFS.
Pretty much all of them start exhibiting weird problems when you start pushing 
hard[1]. Our new expensive NAS frontend is better than the old cheapy one, 
but it's still not up to production use.

That said, it's probably good enough for light domestic use and I'm not sure 
SMB/CIFS would be any better.

[1] Typically workloads include compiler cross-testing, which involves 
compiling tens of thousands of applications, and running these on a remote 
machine via a common NFS directory.

Paul