[plug] NFS mounts over DSL

[Peter J. Nicol]

Thanx everyone ...

This just saved a client about 5K.  He had conflicting advice that this was
not going to work, and that he *really* should put a Win2k Terminal Server
in.

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Matt Kemner [mailto:zombie at penguincare.com.au]
>  Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:28 PM
>  To: Plug at Plug. Linux. Org. Au
>  Subject: Re: [plug] NFS mounts over DSL
>
>
>  On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, quoth Peter J. Nicol:
>
>  > Does anyone have experience with NFS mounts over a DSL connection, say,
>  > 1500/256 on each end?
>
>  I've just (as in yesterday) set up a bunch of samba shares
>  (samba one end,
>  smbfs the other) for a customer, between work & home - with the
>  home linux
>  box then re-exporting those directories to his windows box via samba.
>  It works a lot better than I thought it would.  I chose to use samba over
>  nfs because (a) the work end was already set up that way and (b) in my
>  experience smbfs seems to handle the 'server has gone away' better than
>  NFS does
>
>  256/64 ADSL at both ends, so he's restricted to 8kB/s but he's happy with
>  the ~20sec delay he gets when loading his ~160kB office documents
>
>   - Matt
>