On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Yashpal Nagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am running a NFS server (AIX 5.2 ) to export some file system having
> certain reports to a Linux server (SUSE 9.3).  At present both of
> these systems are on two different LANs but speed is not the issues
> and so far working fine. Now we are putting this AIX  server to a
> geographical distant place and it would require to supply same
> reports.  I belive, to run NFS over the WAN would be too much of
> traffic. Samba server is already running on AIX and neccessary
> firewall rules are also placed in WAN to access shares etc.
>
> What i am looking at is, can i use smbclient to mount these file
> systems instead of NFS, having said i already have samba server and
> firewall rules in place. What kind of traffic smbclient generates in
> comparison to NFS,  is it reliable? or there any other program
> available.
>
>

NFSv4 provides better throughput over SMB share on dedicated tunnel ,
Implementing NFSv4 on server and client side can increase the data
consistency and integrity  , secure transmission using the GSS-API framework
is additional feature

http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/index.php/Comparison_of_NFS_vs._others

may be helpful.
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