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?
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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