10-02-2007, 03:00 PM
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 Re: NFS Exporting a samba share
paul.richards@gmail.com (Paul Richards) wrote in message news: ...
> > > Try the reverse. You can SMB export almost anything, including other SMB
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > That only works if the NFS client also has an SMB client, which was
> > not
> > specified in the original post. If this were so, then there's be no
> > point in original question.
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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
Probablt because Samba servers are SMB servers engineered for
Windows clients, and Windows clients don't care about
POSIX issues.
> 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
An in-kernel SMB client? for Solari s9. I knew there
were couple for Linux. Wow, I guess there's no need for NFSv4
now. :-)
> handles the unix file permissions. Does anyone know if my system will
> be happy having home directories mounted over samba?
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