Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link

Erik Espinoza erik.espinoza at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 00:46:42 UTC 2004


Have you thought about using something like shfs
(http://shfs.sourceforge.net/)? Or perhaps a replicated filesystem
that synchronizes updates? NFS & SMB are both written with LAN in
mind. Right tool for the right job and all that. . .

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:38:02 -0700, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:25, Alan Horn wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > https would add additional Overhead though. It's not mentioned, does
> > > cavader actually mounts that as a shared drive/folder?
> >
> > It's true that https would add the overhead of SSL. If you don't care
> > about your data being intercepted and read by others, don't use https. I
> > would classify that as 'A Bad Idea' however. The overhead of SSL is not
> > significant with modern CPUs, and the bandwidth percentage is not that big
> > a deal either. If you're in _exceptionally_ low bandwidth situations (e.g.
> > mobile phone/9600/14400 baud territory) then you would need to assess that
> > more closely.
> 
> true.. Well right now, using samba is also w/o encryption. I just
> managed to find out how "fast" it is.
> 
> I just did a port forwarding with Compression using SSH they way satish
> mentioned, and used tcptrack to measure the connection speed as I copy a
> file from my local drive to the mount point
> 
> I see transfer of like 4KB/s. Now, that's bad. SCP can get me like
> 100+KB/s
> 
> 
> > Cadaver is a webdav client for unix command line. It functions similarly
> > to a command line FTP client in look and feel. It doesn't mount the
> > filesystem as a shared drive/folder.
> Then how does one access the file system? If it's just like FTP then
> It's not gonna be v useful.
> 
> Right now, I'm on a Linux Box connecting to another LInux Samba File
> server
> 
> > However, you were talking about _windows_ earlier, no ? If you're mounting
> > filesystems on a unix box there are far wider (and richer) choices
> > available to you.
> 
> There are?? I tried NFS/SMB/SSH w Samba.
> 
> If using windows, I might be able to get away using remote folders. (I think)
> Have not researched enough into it
> 
> 
> 
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