Why is the netfiler isolated from the end users? I am not very familiar with it but presumably you could configure the netfiler to require user access control in conjunction with either Windows domain membership or an LDAP backend?
-----Original Message----- From: will ryder [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:00 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Samba Subject: Re: [Samba] Reshare of a Samba mount I can use NFS, but then i come to the issue of file locking... The performance hit at the moment is quite a big deal... On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote: > 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. >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >>>>> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >>> instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
