spamisevi1@yahoo.com (Mike Eisler) wrote in message news:<36f0f19f.0407081629.6d92b402@posting.google.com>...
> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > 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. :-)

Sorry actually.. I was wrong. The "Samba support" is has is only for
serving shares. It cannot mount shares onto the filesystem..

>
>
> > handles the unix file permissions. Does anyone know if my system will
> > be happy having home directories mounted over samba?
> >