Hello

 

I have both windows and Linux Clients connecting to Unraid shares. My understanding is that I can use either for both OS's, but NFS is generally proffered for Linux and SMB is proffered for Windows. What should I opt for for best performance, security, and ease of setup/use when using both OS's?

 

Thanks,

2 hours ago, Dominoes0522 said:

What should I opt for for best performance, security, and ease of setup/use when using both OS's?

 

For this item, I would suggest that you google  NFS security.  As I understand it, NFS is basically insecure unless you take active steps to actually lock things down.  MS is attempting to force good security practices onto SMB networks.  Things like required SMB signing, removing SMBv1 from Windows, forcing login onto servers rather than allowing guest access to any server that the client happens to find on the network.  Granted there are folks who deliberately try (or do) bypass these protections but they are doing it knowing that they are not following good security practices.