10-02-2007, 03:01 PM
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 Re: NFS Exporting a samba share
"Nico Kadel-Garcia" wrote in message news:...
> Mike Eisler wrote:
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> >> multipls OS releases. If you take advantage of subtle configurations
> >> to make things work the way you want (such as using an NIS domain
> >> name that does not match your network's default domain name, or
> >> using hostnames that are not fully qualified because of people's old
> >> software that uses "$HOSTNAME" = "non-fully-qualified-hostname"
> >> sorts of statements, it quickly becomes a nightmare. And Kerberos
> >> used to be pretty fascist about insisting that the
> >
> > Which is why the Solaris NFS/Kerberos V5 stack always canonicalizes
> > based on the FQDN returned by DNS.
> >
> > have you actually used an NFS/Kerberos V5 stack, or are you
> > casting theory?
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> Harsh, harsh experience with older NFS/Kerberos implementations in very
Which NFS/Kerberos V5 stack have you used?
> heterogeneous configurations. Unless they've added something since then,
> Kerberos uses the various "gethostby" functions in libc to try to determine
> the canonical hostname, and actually uses the first entry returned as the
> "canonical" name. And unfortunately, you can't just assert that "DNS gives
Yes indeed, you are casting theory.
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