ted creedon wrote:
How do RoadWarriors share SMB drives from their laptops if they're not
using a VPN?
Leaving Microsoft ports open thru a firewall is an invitation to
disaster.
Who backups the users shared drives? Particularly if there is a
corporate records retention policy required by Sarbanes-Oxley.
Look at the Morgan Stanley presentation from 2004 for a large
corporate OpenAFS installation.
I'd recommend making AFS available to those who want it and let the
users vote with their feet.
tedc
Jeffrey Altman wrote:
Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 10:37:17AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
Theoretically, Samba could implement those IOCTL operations and then
use the OpenAFS for Windows command line tools and AFS Shell Extension
to communicate with the Samba server. That is in fact how Windows 3.1
Tried to implement that, doesn't work. The windows redirector does
not allow
arbitrary ioctls to pass over smb over tcp, it's only ones that it
likes.
You can't use Microsoft's ioctl mechanism. You have to define your own.
An OAFW ioctl is a special file name that is treated as a communication
between the client and the server instead of as an access path to a
file/directory.
I'd be happy though to be proven wrong, I think installing just some
user space
utilities for administration definitely has benefits over having to
install
kernel-mode ifs drivers. If you tell me how I get the AFS ioctls
across to
Samba I might be tempted to implement the server side.... :-)
Note that OAFW does not currently have any kernel mode IFS drivers. It
is entirely user mode. However, using IFS instead of SMB has been shown
to improve performance 10 times. Even over localhost, SMB is a serious
performance hit.
Jeffrey Altman
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I'm not sure whether the RoadWarriors comment is a genuine question or a
point being made with a question but I recently heard of an alternative
to opening the firewall to Microsoft which some may find useful. A
variant of VNC called Ultra VNC allows file transfer - just a thought.
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