[mythtv-users] SMB or NFS?

jfrank at kc.rr.com jfrank at kc.rr.com
Fri Sep 24 18:23:23 EDT 2004


There's a trick to mounting Linux NFS exports on Mac OSX.  You have to use 
the insecure option (which has to do with the port the client uses.)  My 
/etc/exports looks like this (partially), and it works fine between my 
Gentoo box and my PB.

/home 192.168.1.100(rw,sync,insecure)

Jason

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, John Andersen wrote:

> On Friday 24 September 2004 10:24, Bill Chmura wrote:
>> If you do try both, check the transfer speeds.  When I tried both the NFS
>> was much faster than SMB.  Of course I could have had something configured
>> wrong.
>
> You probably do... ;-)
> But what matters is:  IS SMB fast enough?
>
> And the answer is yes, its easily fast enough to
> view anything on a remote backend, as long as you
> have the bandwidth in the network.
>
>
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