I have a samba share running on my server (just an Intel N100 Mini PC). It’s running Fedora Atomic and my desktop is also running Fedora Atomic.
While it’s good enough to watch videos on, reliability when it comes to uploading files to it has been very poor. The connection ends up timing out after a few minutes of uploading.
I found that using rsync to upload files to it has been a lot more reliable.
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sshfsbut overall yesrsyncworks well. I just uploaded 200Go yesterday, no failure.On my LAN if I want to share without downloading them then I rely on MiniDLNA/ReadyMedia for DLNA/UPnP meaning it works with
VLCon desktop, obviously, Android video projectors, mobiles, etc.Guess it depends on your usage but I stopped using Samba when I didn’t have Windows machines on my network. Never looked back.
Since there is no M$ machine in my network I removed samba and simply just use sftp everywhere.
If you dont care about permissions, use NFS. If you need protected shares, use SMBv3, force blocking of SMBv1 protocol.
I have a mix of both NFS and SMBv3 shares between NAS, Windows 11, Ubuntu, and MacOS machines. It can be done, not too difficult unless you are trying to mount things weird in proxmox or something.
Maybe watch your system logs on the server when it’s having trouble, could be something random.
In general, follow samba’s tunjng guidelines, particularly what not to set.
Rsync will always be faster than SMB. NFS will be faster than both other options. It’s a protocol thing. You should tune your SMB config properly though, as there are tweaks that can benefit throughput greatly.
No issues using SMB with my Unraid and transferring to/from my main Fedora 42 KDE PC.
Unusable for me on Fedora. I’m unable to watch movies or videos over network from NAS, have to copy it first
No problems with it here, I’ve uploaded a W10(5.7GB) iso and 30GB worth of Music without an issues. The host computer is running DietPi which is Debian based.
Could be this https://omnitech.net/reference/2023/03/15/0x8007003b-timeout-copying-large-file-to-samba-server/
Or could be if you copy it via Nautilus GUI, people have suggests doing a straight cp from CLI has better results than Nautilus.
When I first started using Linux I only knew of SMB file sharing, if I remember correctly it was relatively easy to setup but eventually ran into permission issues so I then switched over to SSHFS, which sucked to install, but setup is easy.
They’ve worked fine for me, unless the issue of file permissions starts to rear its ugly head.
It’s running Fedora Atomic and my desktop is also running Fedora Atomic.
Then why are you using Samba? It’s primarily for Windows. Use nfs or sshfs. Or if you’re running a media server, you could run an additional file management service like filebrowser.
Smbfs by autofs for decades. 0 issues.