10-02-2007, 03:00 PM
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 Re: NFS Exporting a samba share
"Paul Richards" wrote in message
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> I am not totally sure that I understand why changing my /a mount to be
> a samba share would fix things.. Would I really be able to navigate
> into /a/mounts/1, etc..? How does samba get around the problem that
> NFS has?
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> In this case the client machine (Solaris 9) does have a samba client
> available. The only problem is that I'm not sure how well samba
> handles the unix file permissions. Does anyone know if my system will
> be happy having home directories mounted over samba?
I got it working just fine under SunOS 4.x years ago. If you're using Samba,
it should work fine unless Sun has done oddnesses to their OS since then.
Mind you, they may have done oddnesses to it. That's why I pointed out the
alternative of using symbolic links instead of mount points to point to
another location.
Creating a robust, flexible structure for mounting things appropriately
inside your network can be lots of fun to get right. And in fact,
personally, I'd use symbolic links to distinct mount points inside the first
mounted directory to make things work more flexibly and avoid running an
additional file server on the intermediate client.
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