thanks.
I will give samba a try! Today I just started with the hardware for my new 
(probably ebox) server... when I tested it I let you know my experiences
Andreas

Am Freitag, 16. Oktober 2009 14.25:00 schrieb Radoslav Dejanović:
> Andreas Dick wrote:
> > 1) speed (I think samba is much slower than NFS, maybe this is not longer
> > valid?
> >   
> NFS is faster than SMB in many cases, but these days it isn't such a big 
> difference, unless you handle large files (>1GB), where the performance 
> difference begins to be noticeable.
> 
> > 2) file attributes are different
> >   
> I think Samba team never ever intended to copy all possible Unix 
> attributes and flags, but the basic set (user, group, other) is working 
> well.
> 
> 
> > 3) special characters in filenames are handled different (was a mess in
> > the past, how is it now?)
> >   
> Unicode saves the day. ;-)
> 
> > On the ohter hand, if you setup and use ONLY samba shares, it could work
> > as you expect, but you should test it first!
> >   
> As long as there are no special issues with mounted drives (for example, 
> if all drives are intended to be used as simple Windows shares in Domain 
> or as part of a Workgroup), there should be no issues with that.
> 
> > (I plan to setup ebox from the scrach as well, and samba is as well an
> > option, but all my NFS files must be converted and I expect a hard job)
> >   
> I think you should just check the attributes for anything that Samba 
> can't support; you can still export a directory as NFS volume and Samba 
> share at the same time; keep in mind, however, that there might be 
> issues with attributes, and you will not be able to control NFS via eBox 
> (and you might end up fixing LDAP manually, too); on the other hand, 
> there should be no problems with file locking or any other system issues.
> 
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