• renzev@lemmy.worldOP
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      Because it’s unbelievably broken. Every time I try to set it up it’s always a huge pain, and in the end it’s extremely flakey at best. I’ve only ever seen the SMB protocol work as expected with its native windows implementation, third-party implementations like sambda are awful

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      Samba (and NFS) require you to set shares up on the server’s side. With sshfs, you don’t need anything but a ssh login to your server. Black magic

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      Also samba can’t distinguish between /foo/ and /Foo/ which is a pretty small issue… except when it isn’t.