No-  in my solution-  A connects to B, and B tells A to go to C.

In your case, you would need to keep having B resharing C to A and accept there will be a performance hit. You would, however, want to make sure that any other bottlenecks between B and C are minimized- make sure you are using gigabit switched ethernet connections.

Does the NetFiler have the option to share the files via NFS? I wonder if that would improve the throughput between B and C.


On 06/08/2011 02:55 PM, will ryder wrote:
Here is my network diagram:

[A]<----->  [B]<------->[C]

A is Window's machine
B is RHEL
C is NetApp

B can be thought of sitting in a DMZ, so it can see A and C.
A and C can not talk to each other.

Would the solution below work ?

Thanks

Will


On Jun 8, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:

I don't think you have to define a DFS root.

On the unix level you can create a symbolic link

e.g.

server1# cd /export/data1
server1# ln -s  msdfs:server2\sata2 data2

Assuming that server:/export/data1 is shared in samba as \\server1\data1

the link is meaningless for  unix user but if a widnowsyou connect to 
\\server1\data1, and click on data2, you will be actually be redirected to 
\\server2\data2 share-  server1 does not actually reshare anything.






On 06/08/2011 10:48 AM, will ryder wrote:
Having a little bit of trouble understanding how my configuration might work.

Having seen this :

http://communities.netapp.com/thread/3616

Does this mean that the  DFS root is on the RHEL and NetApp is a leaf node ?

Would anyone have a sample configuration for what i would like to do or could 
suggest one?

Thanks

Will


On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Chris Weiss wrote:

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM, will ryder<[email protected]>   wrote:
Hi,

I am running a samba server that has two shares:
        i) Local directory
        ii) samba mount on  NetApp Filer.

The samba server is running on RHEL 5.

There is a large transfer speed difference between the local directory and 
samba mount.
I have run some tests and determined this is due to RHEL5 reshare of the samba.
Does anyone have suggestions so that I can make this faster ?
use a DFS link so that clients access the netapp cifs directly.
re-sharing is always going to cause some sort of problems, performance
is usually the least of them.
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