Clearly some one who hasn't worked with Samba for that long.
Theres no shame about Samba, it does what it does well, PDC and SMB
sharing and has saved my a#% several times.
I never chimed in as I didn't and still don't follow the thread.
You can stack as many disk protocol sharing services as you want on a
single box, but if you want to re export from one to another, sounds
to me like you are very junior in the network fs space.
As for MSDFS, man that sh$# sux.
If you require clustering of that nature, start doing an RFQ from
NetApp or BlueArc, etc... even look on eBay and actual auctions. My
buddy picked up a few slightly used NetApps for $3.5K each at 4TB.
- Brian
On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Terry Haley wrote:
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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