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Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ?
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NFS : historically insecure by default. Don't know about Kerberos making it secure but Kerberos does not look easy to configure.
sshfs : probably most easy to setup. Can be confusing with ownership and permissions sometimes.
Samba : solid but has a learning curve, even for a simple setup. For example, for a standalone Samba server omitting the Active Directory part, you need to know that in order to create a Samba user you must first have created a local user with the same username.
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Standalone_Server
And the worst option if you have Windows clients.
Thank you for the hint ! Yeah it's in a multiOS environement.
I am wondering if someone can recommend any libre sshfs client for windows7+ preferably that could be installed as a portable app ?
SSHFS is a client not a server. If you want to access SFTP / SSH “shares” from Windows WinSCP and Cyberduck are good options.
Thanks for the link :) I have already setup a samba share (actually I have setup all 3 on my server xD). But Didn't knew they have a whole tutorial on it :) Thanks for the resource, I think I will stay with samba :) Looks the most versatil and has also "easier" security function setup. I mean I don't think I need Kerberos in my homelab setup and SSHFS... Yeah people tend to argue it's a pain in the ass with Windows !
Nice :) With Samba you can also create guest entries without passwords for visitors while having your private files behind your own login. Here an example of guest access : https://std.rocks/gnulinux_samba_no_password.html
And apart from that Samba should be fine for access from MacOS and Windows clients unlike with the ancient NFS, which I expect to be more troublesome to connect especially on Windows, though that is a wild guess.