--- Yashpal Nagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am running a NFS server (AIX 5.2 ) to export some
> file system having
> certain reports to a Linux server (SUSE 9.3). At
> present both of
> these systems are on two different LANs but speed is
> not the issues
> and so far working fine. Now we are putting this AIX
> server to a
> geographical distant place and it would require to
> supply same
> reports. I belive, to run NFS over the WAN would be
> too much of
> traffic. Samba server is already running on AIX and
> neccessary
> firewall rules are also placed in WAN to access
> shares etc.
>
> What i am looking at is, can i use smbclient to
> mount these file
> systems instead of NFS, having said i already have
> samba server and
> firewall rules in place. What kind of traffic
> smbclient generates in
> comparison to NFS, is it reliable? or there any
> other program
> available.
>
Besides the security issues (unless it uses VPN), I
suspect, even if it works, may be unreliable. I would
do rsync using ssh or tar + gzip can be used to move
files.
Regards,
--Naresh
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