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>>>>> Yashpal Nagar writes:
Yashpal> Hi
Yashpal> I am running a NFS server (AIX 5.2 ) to export some file system
having
Yashpal> certain reports to a Linux server (SUSE 9.3). At present both of
Yashpal> these systems are on two different LANs but speed is not the issues
Yashpal> and so far working fine. Now we are putting this AIX server to a
Yashpal> geographical distant place and it would require to supply same
Yashpal> reports. I belive, to run NFS over the WAN would be too much of
Yashpal> traffic. Samba server is already running on AIX and neccessary
Yashpal> firewall rules are also placed in WAN to access shares etc.
Yashpal> What i am looking at is, can i use smbclient to mount these file
Yashpal> systems instead of NFS, having said i already have samba server and
Yashpal> firewall rules in place. What kind of traffic smbclient generates
in
Yashpal> comparison to NFS, is it reliable? or there any other program
Yashpal> available.
How about NFSv4 ? It uses single TCP port, rather than multi-daemon
earlier versions. No idea about SMB.
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1.2. NFS Version 4 Goals
The NFS version 4 protocol is a further revision of the NFS protocol
defined already by versions 2 [RFC1094] and 3 [RFC1813]. It retains
the essential characteristics of previous versions: design for easy
recovery, independent of transport protocols, operating systems and
filesystems, simplicity, and good performance. The NFS version 4
revision has the following goals:
o Improved access and good performance on the Internet.
The protocol is designed to transit firewalls easily, perform well
where latency is high and bandwidth is low, and scale to very
large numbers of clients per server.
o Strong security with negotiation built into the protocol.
The protocol builds on the work of the ONCRPC working group in
supporting the RPCSEC_GSS protocol. Additionally, the NFS version
4 protocol provides a mechanism to allow clients and servers the
ability to negotiate security and require clients and servers to
support a minimal set of security schemes.
o Good cross-platform interoperability.
The protocol features a filesystem model that provides a useful,
common set of features that does not unduly favor one filesystem
or operating system over another.
o Designed for protocol extensions.
The protocol is designed to accept standard extensions that do not
compromise backward compatibility.
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HTH
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