[mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?
Tony Godshall
togo at of.net
Sun Apr 10 03:25:19 UTC 2005
According to Will Dormann,
> Graham Dunn wrote:
> >The problem here isn't so much the samba/nfs decision as the wireless.
> >In my experience, nfs handles the packet loss you see in wireless
> >connections much more poorly than SMB does.
>
> I'm no expert on the subject, but from what I've read if you set up NFS
> to use TCP rather than UDP, it can handle poor quality network
> connections better.
Here's a question- given wireless' packet loss issues, why
mount a remote drive at all? Surely one of the streaming
protocols would do a better job.
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