On Friday 16 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > My point was, that without testing a samba or nfs transfer > > you have no way of judging the load imposed by scp. > > I kind of wish there was a flag to tell scp to negotiate the password in > a secure way, but *not* to encrypt the transfer. Often, when I'm > copying files over a local network, I don't want or need the encryption > overhead. But scp is so convenient for doing copies compared to the > trouble of setting up an NFS mount (and then dealing with processes > hanging in the D state every time the server is down.)
Yup, that and the permissions and uid problems are a headache. I end up using sftp/scp for a lot of stuff, but once I put samba on a machine its easier to use smb.cifs, and its plenty fast enough over a local net. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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