I keep an old RH7 VM running samba as a gateway to NFS shares for our
older Mac boxes , because I was having problems with the ressource fork
on newer implementations of samba. everything works perfect
with newer versions of samba, I experience lock issues accessing the
same NFS shares. So I also have samba running on ever NFS servers, and
drives are mapped directly to the server were the file system is locally
mounted.
As Volker said, look into msfds. It will allow you to point your clients
to one SMB server and access SMB shares off other servers in a
transparent way. You'll still need to install Samba on the NFS file
servers you want to acesss.
hope this helps
Dan
Terry Haley wrote:
So reading this, I assume that noone uses samba as a simple
authentication/gateway to network shares for windows machines. Since
you are limited to sharing local volumes on the PDC? How would I go
about setting up a passthrough for my machines to the actual
fileserver? Do I setup clients on the file server? do I have samba
point them with credentials to the file server?
On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:59:11AM -0400, Terry Haley wrote:
Hmm, so the thing would be to convert my NFS server to use samba? and
setup an smbfs on the PDC?
No, you should not re-export *any* file system you imported
from some network file system. You should direct your
clients at the original file server holding the storage, if
necessary via msdfs redirects.
Volker
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