On Wed, 1 May 2002, David Souza wrote: > NFS Mounts: > <http://deaddog.duch.udel.edu/~frey/darwin/archive/DarwinAndNFS.pdf> > > At 2:42 PM -0500 5/1/02, Matthew Langford wrote: > >I've read, also, that smbmounting more than one fileshare causes kernel > >instability. Does anybody know what list to go to, or where I might ask > >about things like this? I'm trying to support several MacOS X users in a > >university environment where we have a bunch of Samba-based network > >shares, and I'd like to plug them in better.
Unfortunately, NFS raises more issues than it solves. Let's see, the UIDs aren't going to match. Oh, wait, now I've got to incorporate the MacOS X NetInfo into our NIS domain. Instead of worrying about one account username and password being compromised, I have to worry about all of NIS being compromised in this strange, unknown NetInfo beast. And NFS locking issues...server reconnects...case sensitivity...and invisible files popping up everywhere. Things handled transparently by Samba servers (well, mostly). I'll look into it, though. Maybe I can overcome my inherent skepticism and conservativity. :) The problem I have with mount_smbfs, or the Go To... command in the Finder, is this: I have two servers aliased to the same machine, IVY and KUDZU. When I try to mount smb://kudzu/homes, mount_smbfs tries to get \\IVY\homes. I can't figure out why mount_smbfs is changing the name of the server. KUDZU is the WINS server, KUDZU is the domain server if I specify a domain (it seems to make no difference), but it always uses IVY. Giving it a fully qualified domain name does not help, either. -- MattLangford
