Re: Replacing NFS with Samba
From: Daniel L. Miller (dmiller_at_amfes.com)
Date: 01/31/05
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:10:42 -0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Clive Menzies wrote:
>On (29/01/05 16:24), Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>
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>>Tom Allison wrote:
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>>>Daniel L. Miller wrote:
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>>>>Can I replace NFS sharing with a Samba server - and still provide the
>>>>same user rights?
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Daniel
>>>>
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>>>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.
>
If someone can, I'd appreciate a little explanation about the
differences between mounting shares as CIFS vs. SMBFS - they seem to be
the same, and I don't change anything on my Samba3 server.
> 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
>
>
>
What I'm trying to mount is both a common data area, and user home
directories. The common data area mounts via smbfs/cifs with no
problem. Ideally, I'd like the share to be mounted with the permissions
of the currently logged-in user. I don't know how to do that, so I do
it using the user/pass of the primary user for that workstation. The
users are not superusers, and log in via KDM. My current fstab line is:
//server/data /data cifs
defaults,suid,exec,user=abc,pass=123,uid=abc,gid=domusers 0 0
A similar line for /home did not work for cifs - at least for
X-Windows. So I'm still using NFS:
server:/home /home nfs
defaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=10,tcp 0 0
But I still have these intermittent disconnect/re-connects, and when
that happens X-Windows locks up. This is only happening on one
workstation - and the complete workstation has been replaced, along with
a fresh Debian install - so I believe the only thing left is the
physical connection starting from the workstation patch cord and ending
with the 10BaseT switch.
Any assistance here would be sincerely appreciated.
Daniel
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