Thomas, On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Thomas Løcke wrote: > The Samba servers are not running on the VirtualBox host. They are > independent servers. > > So no matter how I do it, I will have to go over the network to get to the > files on the CIFS shares.
Right, but even if you decide to go over a virtual network card then the traffic goes first through the host NIC and then to the guest NIC. > I guess the worry I have about using shared folders for access to CIFS > shares mounted on the host, is one of file-locking. Some of the shares are > accessed simultaneously by multiple guests, and Samba handles this without > a sweat. But what happens if the access to the mounted CIFS shares are done > through the shared folders file system? Locking of files on a shared folder should work. Though less tested than other functionality. > Some testing is surely required! :o) Right. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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