Samba Server vs. NFS Server

When sharing files, just like with anything on Linux, you have more then one option, and you should make your choice based on what you need. We’ll take a look at both SAMBA Server and NFS Server in this article…

If you have some Windows boxes in the network, then it might be better to choose Samba/CIFS. Natively, Windows doesn’t support NFS. You would have to get a third party client application to be able to access your NFS shares…