Hi Edelhard,
> sorry if this is a FAQ, but I didn't find any details in the Manuals
> which came with Sharity.
It's not there.
> In our network we've IRIX 5.3, 6.3/5, HP-UX 10.20 and some Linux
> Boxes (S.u.S.E. 5.1 based, but some newer kernels etc.). The
> automounters use a Map from an IRIX machine served via the "old"
> yellow pages (NIS). The HPs use /usr/sbin/automount, the IRIXes
> /usr/etc/automount and the Linuxes a BSD amd 5.2.2.2 with YP
> support.
>
> How can we configure these automounters to use cifs[u]mount when
> the users access a Windows-Share? The manuals only mention that it
> is possible...
It's not easily possible with these automounters. Automounters are tailored
for NFS, which builds on a different security model. NFS does not require a
password for mounting and you would *not* want to put your plain text
password into a network wide database. It should be possible to configure
Linux' amd to use cifsmount and cifsumount for password-less shares, but I've
not tested that myself (there is a remark about how to do it with smbmount,
the same concept should apply for cifsmount).
The way it was intended in Sharity is to use the "-s" flag to cifsmount. You
can "store" the mount in this way, it will be re-established after each
reboot. If you want to manage the database of mounts centrally (same setup
for all clients), please see the remarks in doc/FAQ.txt (Has anyone done
this? Any experiences?).
For the future (Sharity 2.0) I'm currently implementing full browsing
support, something like the Network Neighbourhood in Windows. This is not a
trivial task and it will take some more time until first betas are available.
> BTW: are there any Numbers about the performance compared to the
> commercial NFS servers for Winsloth available?
Sharity's performance is not consistent across platforms. It depends very
much on the platform's NFS client implementation. I have heared from some
users that Sharity is faster than the NFS servers for NT, and it avoids the
regular bluescreens on NT. One even reported that Sharity is twice as fast as
the NT NFS server, but I don't have hard figures (which NFS server, which
version, network bandwidth, various operations compared etc.). Can somebody
provide hard figures?
Bye, Christian.
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