What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:53 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> can't believe how widely used NFS is, because it is the source of
> endless problems for me. I've never seen it work with any kind of
> reliability at all. One thing I'll say for samba is that the data
> actually seems to show up correctly on the other side :-). 

I've had the opposite.  Samba stalling and transferring at a rate slower
than I can retype a file.  Samba never managing to connect to the other
side.  The hassles of manually setting up each user.  The hassles of
file permissions and ownership getting screwed up in transit.  Compared
to NFS working without pain.

Though, I have to say that my painless NFS server is on a FC4 machine,
and that works fine.  I've found I've had to manually mess with
firewalling to get it to work through anything higher than FC4.

-- 
(This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
 important to the thread.)

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