Re: Replacing NFS with Samba

From: Kadmos (bcml_at_swiftdsl.com.au)
Date: 01/31/05

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    Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:34:52 +1100
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    Daniel L. Miller wrote:
    > 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.

    I recently had a similar problem, which was caused by a network card. It
    had (via ifconfig) a ~2% error rate on packets (it might not have helped
    that it was a 10mb/s nic and the other was 100mb/s). This caused NFS
    (over UDP) to behave similar to what you describe. I didn't try NFS over
    TCP, but I do wonder if it might help, aleast a little bit...

    You could also try to "soft" mount the NFS share (but according to "man
    mount" it might not be a good idea) 

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