# NFS / SMB

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [December 22, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nfs-smb/35425 "2020-12-22T22:21:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/nfs-smb/35425/1 "2020-12-22T22:21:51Z")

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I use a synology NAS servr as main server since Synology supply all needed software. The NAS is linux based. I do have Windows and SLE in LAN. The server offrs SMB and NFS.  
On SLE I started using NFS since I think this is native Linux where SMB is native Windows.

But are there differences in safety and functionality?  
My feeling is NFS is faster access.

When I use VPN (openVPN vi SLE) I canøt access my shares via NFS. I need to use SMB mounts.  
Why that?