On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Joachim Schrod
John Andersen wrote:
SMBmount/CIFSmount work every bit as fast, and since I always needed them anyway, why bother coordinating all the UID/GIDs for what was basically a very insecure system anyway...
I'm curious -- what do you have to coordinate?
UID and GID for each user on all machines across the network.
Don't you have LDAP/NIS/whatever-based netwide authentication with central account creation (i.e., centrally managed accounts with common uids?)
No. Because my customer base is mostly windows shops where linux is being added, or in some cases slowly converted to.
For most SMB or SOHO installations that should suffice and delivers netwide UIDs/GIDs as a side-effect.
Your problem comes up mostly in large installations, when account creation is delegated to different departments or two companies merge. Or in very small installations that don't use LDAP -- but then, I'd use it for any network with > 2 systems. Well, maybe even for a network with 2 systems...
LDAP is not widely used anywhere in the Windows world. I've seen this problem in both large and small shops, where small is anywhere under 50 seats. Large extends to areas covering 4 timezones. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org