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> SMB is a nightmare to set up if your host isn’t running Windows. Samba runs fine on my FreeBSD host? All my clients are Windows though. If I wanted to have

• hnlmorg 1y ago
  It runs fine but it's a nightmare to set up. It's one of those tools that, unless you already know what you're doing, you can expect to sink several hours into trying to get the damn thing working correctly. It's not the kind of thing you can throw at a junior and expect them to get working in an afternoon. Whereas NFS and sshfs "just work". Albeit I will concede that NFSv4 was annoying to get working back when that was new too. But that's, thankfully, a distant memory.