samba and nfs

[ufmale]

My 2 linux computers are connected to the company network.
I can mount one dir of one machine from another machine using

mount //machin1/home/share /mnt/drive

Is this "mount" command using samba or nfs?

[g00rkha75]

Hi,

Most likely you are using nfs command, but you may want to check from your client side using this:
# showmount -e enterprise5 - to check the list of shared directories from the enterprise5 computer

# mount -t nfs enterprise5:/mnt/inst /mnt/remote
This command mounts the /mnt/inst directory from the computer named enterprise5.

But if you run this command first:
# smbclient -L sambaserver -U root
Then,
If you're on a Linux computer, use the /sbin/mount.cifs or mount command (depending on whether you're regular or a root user) to configure the remote [homes] directory share on an empty local directory. For example, as the root user, you could mount on the local /share directory (create it if required) with the following command:
# mount -o username=root "//sambaserver/homes" /share
Then you're using samba.
Do you install samba and nfs at the same server?
You may check by running:
# service smb status or # service nfs status

Cheers,

[ufmale]

is there any benefit to use nfs rather than samba if both machine are linux?

[void_false]

is there any benefit to use nfs rather than samba if both machine are linux?

I found samba is a little bit easier to configure. But it's just my personal opinion. Furthermore I've never done something on enterprise level. Only small home network for personal use.

mount //machin1/home/share /mnt/drive

AFAIK this is a command to mount samba share. With NFS you should use

ip-of-the-server:/path/to/share /mnt/share