Hello, Thanks for the details - they really change completely the whole background ;) Anyway, there's not much I can help in such situation - but see my comments below. Maybe they will help (convince?) in some way.
2009/6/4 Daniel L. Miller <dmil...@amfes.com>: > Michal Dobroczynski wrote: >> >> Hi Daniel, >> Can you specify what NFS features are important to you in such case? >> (in other words please define "look like NFS") >> >> Regards, >> Michal > > Oh - you want me to be specific? What fun would that be? ;-) > > Ok, specifics... > > I'm trying to run an IMAP mail server (Dovecot) in a virtual machine. > However, I do not want the messages stored within the virtual disk. So - > the question was how the virtual machine could access those files. Dovecot > has been setup and tested with NFS. However, when I asked about > compatibility with CIFS, I was told it would probably not work. Testing on > my own showed that in fact that this resulted in problems - it appeared temp > files would be created and never deleted. I tried a few different smb.conf > & mount parameters that SEEMED appropriate - but wasn't able to get it to > work. So... > I am not aware of possible issues (fs calls circus) apart from using ":" in file names: smb: \mico\> put "test:test" putting file test:test as \mico\test:test (0,0 kb/s) (average 0,0 kb/s) smb: \mico\> ls . D 0 Thu Jun 4 19:48:34 2009 .. D 0 Thu Jun 4 19:48:29 2009 TLNVL5~P 0 Thu Jun 4 19:48:40 2009 > I guess my specific question would be how can I setup CIFS so Dovecot will > work with it as happily as it does with NFS? I think you will have to change your requirements and consider NFS instead of CIFS :( Regards, Michal > -- > Daniel > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba