I believe I tried both and had issues with SMB too. I found it all very frustrating. I bought a nice NAS. I bought a bunch of drives. I hooked it up and I expec

I believe I tried both and had issues with SMB too. I found it all very frustrating. I bought a nice NAS. I bought a bunch of drives. I hooked it up and I expected I would be loading on files quickly. But it took all evening to get anything working. I tried SMB and NFS and I recall NFS was easier to get connected, but then I had the permissions issue, which took another couple of days to sort out. I just did not find it plug and play. It took a lot of messing with it. And I am a relatively experienced linux user!