Windows NFS Performance vs Windows File Sharing?

CIFS/SMB really should be your choice for Windows clients & servers - NFS can be very insecure without the hassle of Kerberos. Using SMB you get the standard Windows security model.

• Performance wise there is not not much much in it - possibly SMB is a bit faster.
• XP needs Windows Services for UNIX (here) to mount NFS
• Windows Server can only mount NFS shares not offer them. It has to use SMB.
• Reliability for an XP client mounting an NFS share from a Linux server so far has been fine, although we only have a couple of machines doing this.

In conclusion for a Windows server, NFS is not an option. For an XP client only use NFS if you have to - due to only having a Linux server when you don't want the hassle of setting up SAMBA