SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun), available in Linux, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer ...

This document provides an overview of the Network File System (NFS) protocol as implemented in ABSNFS. Understanding the protocol is valuable for developers working with or extending ABSNFS. Network ...

If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

For many years we've run a file server on Solaris 10 serving files to other Unix/Linux boxes over NFS and Windows clients and servers via Samba. This server is now coming up for replacement and I'm ...

But both are worth considering.

If thinking of NFS v4 puts a bad taste in your mouth, you are not alone. Or wrong. NFS v4.0 and v4.1 have had some valid, well-documented growing pains that include limited bandwidth and scalability.