You might want to check sshfs but overall yes rsync works 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 VLC on 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.

If it’s both *nix, why not NFS? Even Win10 with UTF-8 works well with my NFS server. These days my SMB server is only for Win7 and Android.

Maybe watch your system logs on the server when it’s having trouble, could be something random.

I’ve been using smb protocol for years. NFS is great when it works, but something about my network makes it unreliable or inconsistent between devices.

Smb has never caused me any problems.

In general, follow samba’s tunjng guidelines, particularly what not to set.

In debian/ubuntu I just use the file browser and connect via sftp or whatever. I save the password and put the location in my sidebar for easy access. It works great for playing videos and other uses, although might want to setup jellyfin or similar for videos.

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.

Smbfs by autofs for decades. 0 issues.

I’ve never had any issue with file transfers apart from being a bit slower than NFS. The main issues I have with it is lack of Unix file permissions and not allowing all characters in file names.

Unless you need compatibility with windows, you are better off using NFS or SSHFS.

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.