On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 07:54, Michael Ewan <mhew...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 11/10/2010 6:12 AM, daniel.robe...@sanofi-aventis.com wrote: >> Thanks for all the advice! >> How can I go about figuring out perhaps if I could mount these windoze >> fileshares onto my linux system.. >> I am not very familiar with samba and all.. >> Thanks! >> Dan >> > > You definitely want to put SFU (Services for UNIX) on the Windoze boxes > and provide NFS file shares back to Linux. If at all possible, upgrade > your Windows machines to Server 2008.
out of curiosity, how well did that stuff work on earlier windows? does it work on non-server machines (say, xp pro and vista ultimate)? i'm conslutting in a mixed environment where that's what's available, so the question isn't quite idle. > We have experimented with SFU and > found the NFS performance to be quite good. The alternative is samba > client on the Linux box, which is a pain. i find typing 'aptitude install samba-client' (or similar) and 'smbmount \\\\192.168.1.20\\sharename /mnt -o user=username' to be easier than doing anything to/with windows...i also know that my unix tools work fine on those file shares (and it sounds like they would on the SFU NFS export too). while i agree that the crazy number of backslashes aren't intuitive, well, the OP knows about them by this example so now it's known & easy anyhow. also, how good is the performance? i have a machine that can serve over 1000mbit via ftp or nfs (using jumbo frames on a channel-bonded 4x1000mbit nic). samba on the same machine serves at significantly slower rates, peaking around 300mbit. (tested from a linux client. performance not quite as good to/from a windows client). so i am not trying to argue that samba works better on the network--i'm curious to hear some numbers on similar hardware (no way to test windows on this box, not with the raid arrays formatted xfs). > Rule of thumb, in a > heterogeneous environment, provide the native protocols that the client > machine supports. my rule of thumb is "don't do anything with windows you can more easily do with linux" =) but easy is all in the eye of the beholder. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug