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NFS is the best option if you only need to access the shared drives over your LAN. If you want to mount them over the internet, there's SSHFS.
See, this is interesting. I'm out here looking for the new shiny easy button, but what I'm hearing is "the old config-file based thing works really well. ain't broken, etc."
I may give that a swing and see.
I'm at the same age - just to mention, samba is nowhere near the horror show it used to be. That said, I use NFS for my Debian boxes and mac mini build box to hit my NAS, samba for the windows laptop.
I've run Proxmox hosts with smb shares for literally a decade without issue. Performance is line speed now. Only issues I've ever had were operator error and that was a long time ago. SMB 3 works great.
Yeah, Samba has come a long way. I run a Linux based server but all clients are Windows or Android so it just makes sense to run SMB shares instead of NFS.
you and perhaps @curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com, may I ask if you use samba with portable devices, like laptops?
I do and my experience is that programs that try to access it when I don't have network access tend to freeze, including my desktop environment, but any file managers too if I click the wrong place by accident. but it occurs enough without user action too.
oh and it breaks all machines at once if the server or network is down. which is rare but very annoying.
did you experience this too? do you have some advice? is SMB just unsuitable for this?
honestly I would prefer if the cifs driver would keep track of last successful communication, and if it was long ago instantly fail all accesses. without unmounting so that open directories and file handles keep being valid.
and if all software on this world wouldn't behave as if they were doing IO on the main thread. honestly this went smoother with windows clients but I'm not going back.
Honestly no, that's not really my use case. My PC is running over a 2.5G cable. Funny enough, my wife and kid's laptops rarely leave the house. I have experienced some wait time if the server is down while the PC looks for it, but nothing so drastic as locking things up. That particular window will just be spinning for a bit trying to find the server over the network.
Same. I've used SMB for years. Don't have any problems with it across all my Windows and Android devices. Pretty sure I had an iPad in there at one point as well.
I've always had weird issues with SMB like ghost files, issues with case sensitivity (zfs pool), it dropping out and me having to reboot to re-establish the connection... Since switching to Linux and using NFS, it's been almost indistinguishable from a native drive for my casual use (including using a ssd pool as a steam library...)
I can definitely say in the past I had similar experiences. I haven't really had any problems with SMB in the last 5 years that I can recall. It really was a shit show back in the day, but it's been rock solid for me anyway.