On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Carlos E. R.
Yes, there is something in what you say. But does samba suport the full set of linux file permissions and ownership? I believe it doesn't.
How can it not. It lives under the kernel. It has no choice.
Plus, I usually find samba more difficult to setup, compared to nfs. Too many options and pitfalls.
Defaults are find for almost every use. The only thing I ever change is to force Group Permissions on new files and directories created by clients.
In any case, I simply mentioned nfs because I had heard somewhere that it can remap users. It seems this is so, but it is not documented.
I've been in this place before. Conversion carefully planned when upgrading a server. Just use nfs from the old server and copy to new. GAK!! UIDs all hozed.
I don't really care how the remapping is done, nfs or whatever. There should be a local filesystem mount able to do that, perhaps using the kernel "device-mapper" thing.
There is also a way to run a daemon which does the remaps for you but its a huge kluge, worse than Samba, and requires constant attention as users come and go. Samba allows you to create the user accounts in their workstation and the server without regard to UIDs, and when files move back and forth they get the right permissions with no coordination of UIDs. Note there is another setting somewhere in yast where you can set the range of UIDs and GIDs and it won't change. But you still have to remember to coordinate between workstations and server. So you end up having to coordinate two machines each time a new machine is added or a user account is added. Its a mess. Samba is easier in my opinion. I've done it many times. I've long since sworn off NFS. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org