On May 27, 2011, at 10:08 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 05/27/11 at 09:57pm, Will Ryder wrote: >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 27 May 2011, at 21:51, William Hopkins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 05/27/11 at 06:04pm, Will Ryder wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have NFS mount of netapp filer on debian 6 and on a rhel 5 machines. >>>> >>>> I have samba server running on both machines that windows pc can connect >>>> to and access the nfs mount. >>> Why? Last I checked, netapp filers had SMB support. >> They do have cif shares but I cannot connect directly > Hmm. I don't follow this.. why not?
Sorry, I did not describe my network properly and the permissions I need. Basically I need the UID and GID for file creation for data protection reasons. The windows pcs and rhel machine sit on one side of a Firewall/access control list on a subnet off the main network where the netapp is, the Debian machine sits on the main network with it's own firewall. It is not a usual network configuration and the data storage has to have a high level of integrity. Therefore I am using TCP instead of UDP. (Was quite impressed with the transfer speed, at one point I was getting ~ 100Mb/s (sorry to diverge from my original question), the server has two 1Gps network cards) The not being able to connect via CIF is really due not a technical issue - I know it could be done - but it will not happen in this circumstances. >> >>>> >>>> Is this advisable ? As I cannot have strict file locking. Or is there some >>>> way to make nfs and CID share work together file locking? >>> Not advisable, no. SMB emulates windows locks and NFS mandates UNIX locks >>> and they aren't compatible. You may or may not have issues. >>> I would suggest you ask around the samba-technical list for best practices, >>> and if you can't fully understand all the implications then you'd be safest >>> finding another solution. >> >> That was what I thought I might get as a reply. > Well, debian user has a wide variety of experience but sometimes it's best to > get a bit more granular. The data is write once as it is archived for a number of years, so I have to get it right! I will try the other list for more advice. Therefore the not locking (setting strict locking = no in smb.conf) in some ways is not a big issue unless it affects data integrity. I am thinking that users may need to transfer to unix machine via samba to a local raid stoage, then copy to the NFS share. I will post on the samba technical list, thanks for your help > > Did you mean to reply to me off-list? If you always reply to list you'll get > the most feedback, unless you want to take something offtopic or discuss > individually (: > Replied on the Iphone - sorry should have been on the list, thanks for agreeing to bring this back to the list > -- > Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
