Actually Dan that helps a lot. It tells me the amount of work and
effort it takes to bend this application in order to fit a mold it was
not intended for. In the end, I decided to bite the bullet and make my
PDC double as my primary file server. 45 mins of swapping an FC-nic,
remapping the lvm's and reconfiguring the smb.conf in order to make
this a non-issue and prevent more complexity proliferation is well
worth it. It's a shame it doesn't handle remote file systems more
elegantly.
Thank you, everyone, for your comments and advice.
Terry
On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Daniel Bourque wrote:
I keep an old RH7 VM running samba as a gateway to NFS shares for
our older Mac boxes , because I was having problems with the
ressource fork on newer implementations of samba. everything works
perfect
with newer versions of samba, I experience lock issues accessing the
same NFS shares. So I also have samba running on ever NFS servers,
and drives are mapped directly to the server were the file system is
locally mounted.
As Volker said, look into msfds. It will allow you to point your
clients to one SMB server and access SMB shares off other servers in
a transparent way. You'll still need to install Samba on the NFS
file servers you want to acesss.
hope this helps
Dan
Terry Haley wrote:
So reading this, I assume that noone uses samba as a simple
authentication/gateway to network shares for windows machines.
Since you are limited to sharing local volumes on the PDC? How
would I go about setting up a passthrough for my machines to the
actual fileserver? Do I setup clients on the file server? do I have
samba point them with credentials to the file server?
On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:59:11AM -0400, Terry Haley wrote:
Hmm, so the thing would be to convert my NFS server to use samba?
and
setup an smbfs on the PDC?
No, you should not re-export *any* file system you imported
from some network file system. You should direct your
clients at the original file server holding the storage, if
necessary via msdfs redirects.
Volker
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