On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Alan Davies wrote:
smbmount works here, on a "latest production release". According to O'Reilly...'Using Samba'...page 36.....Smbmount....this feature wasn't being maintained at the time of writing (Jan 2000) so its left as an optional feature in the compile of the kernel (and I assume not in SUSE7.0) ....and provide smbwrapper instead - but it doesn't explain what that is.
smbmount is now being maintained by a member of the Samba team.
There was something about suid - that I didn't understand. There's a helper program called smbmnt that has to be installed suid-root. What's a helper program? And what is installing 'suid-root'?
"suid" is "set user ID" - it's a flag you can set on an executable file which means that when the file is run, it runs with the privileges of the user who *owns* the file rather than the current user. Most commonly used for programs owned by root - this allows users to execute commands requiring root privileges. The programs which are flagged as suid-root must be very careful not to compromise the system security by allowing users to do things other than those intended.
I am not ready to move home directory hosting to LINUX - for several reasons... NT server (PDC and BDC) have mirrored technology, software raid and gigabit fibre backbone connections....all of which I don't have on LINUX - and may not even be supported by LINUX....yet. Software raid definitely is, gigabit ethernet almost certainly is, mirroring...what is being mirrored? NT allows you to have two discs (or even servers) which 'mirror' the contents of the other. If one fails.....its OK.
How are you distinguishing between disc mirroring and RAID? Disc mirroring is just RAID level 1. Michael