SMB, FTP, or NFS for NAS + server? (lemmy.world)

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I am running a NAS that needs to connect to a server (the NAS isn't powerful enough). I also need to connect my NAS to a Windows, Mac, and Linux device (Linux being the most important, then Mac, then Windows). Out of SMB, FTP, and NFS, which one would be the best, quickest, and most secure for my situation? My NAS supports multiple sharing protocols, but I don't want to deal with mixed up permissions and conflicts later on.

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[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

SMB for the windows clients, possibly NFS as well for the others. *nix will talk with SMB fine, but NFS may be faster. Windows' NFS support is shit though.

Running both daemons won't really add much overhead

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

SMB works fine on everything. Whatever NAS they are running will be using the same Samba implementation anyway.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

I've found SMB to more frequently have connection issues with my Linux clients, and often be slower. It'll work, but if you're mainly supporting Linux clients, might as well set up NFS if you like toying with things anyways

[-] monomon@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

Same here, SMB was significantly slower in our organization than NFS.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Because SMB is slower than NFS. OP isn't concerned about that, but rather ease of use, and persisting perms and ownership.

[-] monomon@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Fair enough, i thought it should be noted. The difference was significant at times.

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