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i consider replaceing an nfs export with a samba export and smbfs import.
the security problems of nfs are will known to me, as the advantages of
samba. my question is: what drawbacks can i expect with a samba/smb try ?

for example, createing device inodes is not possible via smbfs (i guess).
this is ok, since i want to export/import /home/<user>.

but what about symlinks ? sockets ? named pipes ?
i don't know how many normal unix applications (not daemons)
depend on them and require them in $HOME. (/tmp is normal ext2fs).
anything else to worry ?

i also guess samba/smbfs will be slower. but will it be 5% or 100% ?
i have no idea.

thanks for your help.

regards, andreas

IME file permissions are handled radically differently - with smb you only
get to read / write / full control depending on the username you mount the
share as - chown and chmod are ineffective.

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>for example, createing device inodes is not possible via smbfs (i guess).
>this is ok, since i want to export/import /home/<user>.

>but what about symlinks ? sockets ? named pipes ?
>i don't know how many normal unix applications (not daemons)
>depend on them and require them in $HOME. (/tmp is normal ext2fs).
>anything else to worry ?

Suggest you try it.

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>i also guess samba/smbfs will be slower. but will it be 5% or 100% ?
>i have no idea.

(see previous suggestion). I don't have much to compare it with here - I get
a noticable latency (0.3 secs + on a ready mounted drive from an NT box) but
after that throughput seems about the same.

Quote:

>thanks for your help.

>regards, andreas

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