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. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
