Solus 4.1 Samba

kenthorpe

Installed 4.1 and followed instructions fot setting up samba to access a Synology NAS. Worked perfectly. Latest update allows access to NAS and all files visible. However, cannot access file as they are marked as missing?

WetGeek

kenthorpe Installed 4.1 and followed instructions fot setting up samba to access a Synology NAS.

I'm just curious why you'd do that instead of just talking to the NAS using NFS? Seems like Samba would only add complexity.

kenthorpe

Solved by installing Synology File Server on main drive and installing / enabling webDAV on NAS.

kyrios

WetGeek Well it depends on the use case I guess (i.e.: how do you want to manage the permissions, are the others computers on the network running windows, ...).

WetGeek

kyrios are the others computers on the network running windows,

That's what made me curious. We have a mix here, too. The Windows machines talk to the NAS using SMB. The Linux machines talk to it using NFS. Our Synology machine runs both servers, and I was wondering if some models are Windows-only.

kyrios

WetGeek and I guess that if you had a mac it would talk to the NAS using AFP, so you'd have 3 services running and consuming resources on the NAS for doing the same thing. Each being a potential door for a hacker to gain access to your data, each subject to vulnerabilities, etc...

Not even mentioning that NFS & Samba manage the permissions in a totally different way so securing the personal data in such configuration becomes challenging.

Linux, macs and (recent) windows hosts can all connect to NFS or SMB... only AFP is a bit more complicated, especially on windows hosts.

Personally, I don't like NFS (v3 security is a joke, v4 is a PITA to configure and isn't suited for home networks). Samba was too slow an caused lags when streaming high definition video to my linux machine. Since I had SSH enabled to do remote administration on my NAS, I decided to go for SSHFS, which is easy to setup & secure and performances were better than samba. -> I use this from all my devices including my mobile phone when it's connected to the LAN.

And now @kenthorpe uses webDAV for filesharing... plenty of possibilities depending on what people need/want.

WetGeek

kyrios I guess that if you had a mac it would talk to the NAS using AFP

I meant no disrespect to anyone's choice of operating their own equipment. My NAS runs on Linux, and I was curious why anyone would choose Samba on a Linux machine to talk to another Linux machine. Thanks for your comments. Asking questions is how we learn.

kenthorpe

Forgive me but I am a relative newcomer to the mysteries of file sharing. I like using Solus and I found that setting up samba using the instructions given in the Solus Help Centre just worked and so I stayed with it. I was somewhat frustrated that the update resulted in a somewhat esoteric error message and a fair amount of research brought me to where I now am. It works and I am happy. To the extent that my NAS runs well on almost every other distro "out of the box" was a further point of frustration with Solus.

ermo

kenthorpe

... "Esoteric error message"? I don't see any reference to it in this thread? Where did you post it? Which Solus edition were you using when you saw the issue?

kenthorpe

May I also thank members for your help.