Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Tue Jun 22 17:17:06 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:45, Alan Horn wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
> > Then how does one access the file system? If it's just like FTP then
> > It's not gonna be v useful.
>
> it's a browser, just like a windows point and click interface, except you
> put and get using command line. It still access the filesystem using
> ls/dir etc...
Can it be mounted ?
> > Right now, I'm on a Linux Box connecting to another LInux Samba File
> > server
> >
>
> So you have a linux filesystem that is accessed by samba and then using
> samba is sent to the rest of the world ? Remember that SMB is a windows
> evolved protocol, and was never intended for linux to linux communication
> (altho I'm sure it'll work for that).
Yeah.. I know about that..
> hmm.. is TCP NFS (as opposed to udp) any better for you ?
I'm not sure. I've not really tried that yet. There was a few
suggestions but I've not put anything on paper yet. Fairly Busy ATM. :-)
But I will have to say that NFS UDP sucks.
> What is the aggregate bandwidth between the two boxes ? If this is over
> the internet _any_ solution you pick is likely to get shitty performance.
> :)
What they tell me is that There's a 1Mbit link to the office in Asia.
And yeah.. It's over the internet..(over VPN is my guess) :-)
But... If I were to do a wget from the server I get like up to 100K/s
>
> I still think webdav is a reasonable solution. I suggest investigating it
> and then getting back to me :)
Ok.. if you say so.. Will investigate more later.. Thanks
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