G T Smith wrote:
Manne Merak wrote:
Joe Morris wrote:
On 07/03/2008 01:38 AM, Manne Merak wrote: Well, I did n bit of Googling and, like most great ideas :), there is a solution out there. http://www.ricardis.tudelft.nl/~vincent/fusesmb/ It describes almost exactly what I want. Will try it out tonight.
Manne
Tried this some time ago and the performance was pretty poor. Spends a significant amount of time authenticating and not a lot of time on servicing files which is BTW the major issue with the approach that you describe, each request for a resource requires an authentication request Well, that is just bad implementation, nothing wrong with the approach. Windows does this very efficiently.
(whether or not authentication is actually required). It is an extremely inefficient way of doing things. If you have a very small legacy workgroup it may be useful but it essentially does the same thing as cifs but slower.
They may have improved things since...
As I understand it just mounts the share with smbmount (mount.cifs), so if they can just streamline the authentication it should be fine. (I see this from the point of view of one of my desktop-user friends running Kubuntu (he does ruby def on Ununtu servers and need the debian environment, dont ask) - he can help himself around a PC but will not be interested in fiddling with the fstab file or "mount -cifs" when someone comes around with a laptop and share some files on the network.) Office environment is something else. Manne -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org