Re: Replacing NFS with Samba

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 01/30/05

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    On (29/01/05 16:24), Daniel L. Miller wrote:
    > Tom Allison wrote:
    >
    > >Daniel L. Miller wrote:
    > >
    > >>Can I replace NFS sharing with a Samba server - and still provide the
    > >>same user rights?
    > >>
    > >>--
    > >>Daniel
    > >>
    > >>
    > >
    > >Why would you do that unless it was only for the purpose of supporting
    > >Windows?
    > >
    > >There are authentication models for Samba.
    >
    > I've been having some major problems with a couple workstations on my
    > network. They are setup to mount the home directory tree from an NFS
    > server. The problem is, for some reason, the network connection gets
    > interrupted periodically for a moment. I'm still investigating the
    > physical connections - but every time it happens, the X-Windows session
    > locks up. I was hoping Samba would provide a more fault-tolerant
    > environment.
    Hi Daniel

    I've also been looking to replace NFS with Samba (I administer mixed
    networks and trying to simplify things). On the Linux clients I tried
    smb4k which seemed to work fine for a while and then became quite
    erratic. I also encountered problems when trying to write to Samba
    shares - it would fail to overwrite an existing file but end up leaving
    a file of 0 bytes. So until recently, I reverted to NFS.

    However, following something I spotted on the list I tried cifs instead
    of smbfs and it seems to have solved the writing to shares problem. I
    tried smb4k again and it was fine for a while and then seemed become
    unstable. I am waiting to the alioth 64bit mirror to come back on stream
    so I can try xsmbbrowser instead.

    Other than browsing shares with smb4k, samba is performing really well.
    I run openoffice in a 32bit chroot environment and that is
    reading/writing shares with no problem.

    In short, using cifs on the clients has resulted in being being able to
    consider dumping nfs.

    Regards

    Clive 

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