10-02-2007, 03:00 PM
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 Re: NFS Exporting a samba share
"Mike Eisler" wrote in message
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> "Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote in message
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> > Mike Eisler wrote:
> >
> > >> 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. :-)
> >
> > Especially because AFS is available for Solaris, Linux, Windows, and
MacOS
> > X, allowing a far more secure authentication structure and robust file
> > access for remotely connected sites.
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> Kerberos V5 authentication, integrity, and
> privacy for NFS has been shipping since 1998.
Friend, have you ever *tried* to integrate Kerberos into NFS in the wild?
It's..... pretty painful, at least the last couple of times *I* tried it.
And you missed the "robust" part. There is still no fix for the "if you lose
network connections of a hard-mounted NFS directory, you often need to
reboot both the server and the client to clean up the mess" problem. This
has been true for many years, and remains unchanged, especially since a lot
of NFS clients have built-in antique sources and lack these resources but
are expected to continue operating as modern servers.
OSF/1, anyone?
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