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Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ?
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If you're going to have any non-linux clients, samba will be an order of magnitude easier. MacOS handles nfs pretty well, but Windows just wants SMB
You don't have to choose just one though. It's perfectly ok to share a directory via Samba for Windows clients and share the same directory again with NFS for Linux clients.
macOS switched from AFS to samba for file sharing & time machine backups a while ago; it's been a while since I had first-hand experience setting up a Mac, but based on that fact I'm pretty sure samba is more straightforward to use. ... it annoyingly mangles unix file ownership, & permissions though, as mentioned above in https://lemmy.ml/comment/10204431
Yeah, multi-OS environemment... Thanks for your comment :)
Samba is also generally supported better than NFS on mobile file managers.
Windows can also use NFS, but you have to enable it in the settings.