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Why is NFS a lot slower than Samba in this case and can we make it faster?
I can't change much about the general setup, but try to do the best working with it:
General Setup
A .mdb backend Microsoft Access, for VBA, is placed on a computer. Other computers access that ...
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Accessing Linux NFS Shares using Windows Explorer
I have a Linux Machine (CentOS 6.4) using which I exported a NFS Share.
I'm pretty sure that this is an NFS Share since I
Created an entry in /etc/exports
Ran the command exportfs -avr
Now when I ...
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Setting up a file share for a lab of Windows PCs with Samba or NFS
I am trying to setup a "shared drive" for our lab on a university campus. I installed Debian on a spare PC we have here and the "clients" are all using Windows 7 Professional.
Ideally, they all want ...
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mount Command Works, but fstab Version Fails - Samba Issue
I can mount a share with this command:
sudo mount -o username=user,password=pass //192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share
And in my fstab I have this line:
//192.168.5.227/share /mnt/share cifs credentials=...
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NFS won't allow access to mounted media
I'll explain it here, but I have this problem, for which the solution that user received doesn't fix my problem satisfactorily (sshfs)
The problem is that I would like to share my /media folder over ...
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Connecting one Linux host's filesystem to the other in a way that tolerates network interruptions
I have two Linux hosts (both running Ubuntu 10.04) and I want one of them to have access to part of the filesystem of the other. I.e. I want remote1 to be able to access the files of remote2:/home/...
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