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I use SSHFS when I want to quickly grab a file off my server at home.
It is not a permanent solution, but it is fast and SSH is almost never blocked so the network I'm coming from doesn't matter.
Also SSH is great, if I don't trust the network I'm on, I tunnel all of my traffic through my home server over a SSH connection (this worked whilst I was in China a few years ago, waiting for my connecting flight).
In my personal experience and for my personal needs smb has worked best for me even though it feels kinda "bad" because of the windows background. However that also makes it useful, too, as it is compatible with most os'es...
Security setup is easy. Performance good (in my experience better than sshfs but i am sure sshfs transfers are more secure than smb).
Isn't samba a fork and open source package from Windows's samba/cif ? I think I read something like that on the web, but not sure about that information. So it hasn't anything to do with windows. I may be wrong on that tough !