Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-16 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Zane Gilmore wrote: If you have multiple users on your network then the UIDs have to be consistent across ALL machines using the NFS sharing. If they aren't then the permission hell you can get into is vicious. I have been a victim of this so many time now that I will onl

Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-14 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 3/13/08, Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Carter wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Yuri wrote: > > > > > > > For linux to linux mounts I use nfs. Simpler. > > I disagree completely. > If you have multiple users on your network then the UIDs have to be > consistent across ALL machine

Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-12 Thread Zane Gilmore
John Carter wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, yuri wrote: For linux to linux mounts I use nfs. Simpler. I disagree completely. If you have multiple users on your network then the UIDs have to be consistent across ALL machines using the NFS sharing. If they aren't then the permission hell you

Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-11 Thread John Carter
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, yuri wrote: Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment? At the moment if I want to browse any other machine on the LAN I use the "fish:" url in konqueror. 1) from a user's point of view, is "smb:" any easier to use than "fish:" in konqueror? 2) from

Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-11 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 3/11/08, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment? It obeys symbolic links correctly, but the price you pay is that it is slower than to NFS. > At the moment if I want to browse any other machine on the LAN I use > the "fish:" url in ko

Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-11 Thread Nick Rout
PS > for the only shareable resource on my LAN. How do I mount a filesystem permanently and in which neither system complain if either the server or the client reboot using ssh? > > Yuri > > On 11/03/2008, John Carter wrote: >> Say "troubleshooting samba" to Google...

Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-11 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:51 PM, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment? > 1) from a user's point of view, is "smb:" any easier to use than > "fish:" in konqueror? > 2) from an admin's POV, is samba any better than running sshd on ever

Re: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-11 Thread yuri
an admin's POV, is samba any better than running sshd on every box? Or, are we talking six of one, half dozen of the other? I understand that samba also shares other resources, but I have CUPS for the only shareable resource on my LAN. Yuri On 11/03/2008, John Carter wrote: > Say "

RE: Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-10 Thread David Lowe
p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Troubleshooting Samba Say "troubleshooting samba" to Google... and you will be Lucky. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch09_01.html On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, David Lowe wrote: > I know it's quite low-level in th

Troubleshooting Samba

2008-03-10 Thread John Carter
Say "troubleshooting samba" to Google... and you will be Lucky. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch09_01.html On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, David Lowe wrote: I know it's quite low-level in the geek stakes, but would someone be able to present something on configuring Sam