do ordinary network storage hardware support NFS ?

[DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre]

loads of network drives (wifi, USB2, ethernet, or combo) are said from specs to
support usually Microsoft sharing system, and AppleTalk or Bonjour.

My concern is that those two systems are really not well implemented, or expose many
compatibility issues with UNIX systems (apart from NT5 and MacOS.X).

Do those disks also usually support NFS for Linux, BSD, QNX, and Solaris ?

What is the usual internal file system used ?
FAT and NTFS are likely to decrease NFS performances, or even reduce or prohibe
advanced options like ACL, quotas ... when using UNIX file systems may also do it
reverse way, and prohibe ADS for (MS-)NT users ...

optionnal: if some of you know about compatibility with LDAP, SSH mount, sftp or
similar ... that d also please me.

 

[Yousuf Khan]

loads of network drives (wifi, USB2, ethernet, or combo) are said from specs to
support usually Microsoft sharing system, and AppleTalk or Bonjour.

My concern is that those two systems are really not well implemented, or expose many
compatibility issues with UNIX systems (apart from NT5 and MacOS.X).

I've not seen too many that support Appletalk or Bonjour. Most do
support the Microsoft one, also known as CIFS. The second most popularly
supported one is NFS. But then most of my experience is with higher end
network storage like Netapps and stuff.

Yousuf Khan