On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 12:34 -0600, Brandon Pedersen wrote: > Hey, > > So, I have a Linux server that is mounting a CIFS share. The server then > shares that share to everyone else. My question is does having it routed > this way cause a major slow down? Do the files need to be copied to the > mediator server before going out to the device that is requesting the file? > Or is it able to forward the request to the other server to grab the files > directly from there? > > I am curious about this because we have a big imaging server with a whole > bunch of images on it and we are setting up this new server and don't want > to move all the images over, thus we just mounted the images directory on > the new server. > > What would you do?
Use a DFS Root, and redirect clients. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
