-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Andersen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
It is doable, but my experience with mixing NFS mounts with CIFS shares was not a happy one, YMMV. In the end dropped the NFS side. If the files need to be shared by both Windows and *NIX clients I would suggest use CIFS/Samba only (at least for those files which need to shared by both).
What sort of problems were you having? I've had some directories shared by both methods for years and it's worked fine.
Generally you run into permissions problems unless your environment is so small that you can enforce common GID/UIDs across all platforms. But that is not specific to mixing NFS with CIFS, its mostly just a NFS problem.
Other than that, the only problem with mixing is that your NFS users will occasionally create a document with the same name but different capitalization, which gives the windows users fits.
For mist usage, I've found that SAMBA is plenty fast enough such that there is no advantage to running both systems on the same server. I haven't used NFS for years.
It was a long time ago. IIRC The user permissions was one issue, at time I had both doze and NFS machines accessing the same areas and this did occasionally cause file locking issues (particularly with OpenOffice). The capitalisation issue is handled to some extent by name munging in Samba (though I do not remember ever testing whether this actually worked). There were also some differences in how links were handled which gave me a few problems. Windows/Samba and NFS/*Nix have somewhat different security models and doze style ACLs did not always play nicely with the NFS access at that time. Never was an enthusiast for the basic NFS security model and decided there was no real benefit in running both NFS and Samba and plenty of reasons to run only one of the two, and went with the lowest common denominator :-) . (BTW Also experimented with Mars, the Netware 3.x equivalent of Samba, but that had its own issues). - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklIx+AACgkQasN0sSnLmgJQBQCdFBw15NiHqdTDDpcnM9Yznlsb LG8AoLpVxUXRrTxf9r7SnnRZ3XNj48Td =tNE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org