We use samba to export lustre from a linux lustre client to both Windows and MacOS regularly. We are pretty much using samba defaults. But this is not intended for serious use of lustre - mainly just for pulling a few files over for presentations or to attach to an email, etc..
-----Original Message----- From: lustre-discuss <[email protected]> on behalf of Richard Henwood <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 9:03 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] Luster access from windows On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 11:25 +0530, Parag Khuraswar wrote: > Hi, > > We have installed Lustre -2.10.1 on RHEL 7.3 with 2 OSS & 2 MDS > nodes. Our need is to share the lustre file system on windows > machines. > Please let me know if this is possible. > Or else can we share lustre fS through shamba on windows by > configuring samba share on any lustre client. If yes then is there > any special setting apart from the default samba settings ? > Hi Parag, I attended a presentation at LUG 2013 that talked about sharing Lustre with Windows. The method was: + On your 'Windows' machine, first install Linux with the Lustre client, and mount the Lustre file system. + Next, install Windows with KVM on the Lustre client, and use the local Lustre mount from Windows. The presentation is here: http://cdn.opensfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/LUG-13a.pdf If a video is available, there might be more discussion you can access with that... best regards, Richard -- [email protected] Server Software Eco-System Tel: +1 512 410 9612 IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org
