Re: Replacing NFS with Samba
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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