samba - Apr 2003 - Samba and solaris automountd

Hello folks,
I have posted a message similar to this on the solaris list. I'm trying
to export a number of shares that are automounted under a common
directory, i.e, /prog.  Under /prog, I have directories such as /prog/one,
/prog/two,  /prog/three, /prog/four e.t.c; some of the directories are
from the same nfs server, others are from different nfs servers.  The
beauty of automounting /prog is that I have one central place where I can
access all these shared filesystems from a single unix workstations.

The question is, how do I use samba to replicate that same "beauty" to
P.C
workstations?  That is, I want /prog shared out to P.C's by samba, so that
everything may appear, and be mounted as drive
H:\prog\[one,two,three,four] on a windows machine?.

How does it work with  the fact that /prog/one and /prog/two are from two
different servers; that  is, how would I consolidate running samba on
filesystem #1, which shares out /one and filesystem #2 which shares out
/two?  I hope that is clear to some body.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

thanks
robert

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 10:09:48AM -0500, Robert Johannes
wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I have posted a message similar to this on the solaris list. I'm trying
> to export a number of shares that are automounted under a common
> directory, i.e, /prog.  Under /prog, I have directories such as /prog/one,
> /prog/two,  /prog/three, /prog/four e.t.c; some of the directories are
> from the same nfs server, others are from different nfs servers.  The
> beauty of automounting /prog is that I have one central place where I can
> access all these shared filesystems from a single unix workstations.
> 
> The question is, how do I use samba to replicate that same
"beauty" to P.C
> workstations?  That is, I want /prog shared out to P.C's by samba, so
that
> everything may appear, and be mounted as drive
> H:\prog\[one,two,three,four] on a windows machine?.
I would suggest looking in to MS-DFS. MS-DFS (Distributed FileSystem)
lets your PC users mount a single drive that actually contains pointers
to any number of other shares. Samba will need to be compiled with
MS-DFS support and it will need to be enabled in smb.conf. You set up
the MS DFS tree by creating symbolic links in the DFS root share that
point to the real servers. I think there's an entire document talking
about it in detail in the Samba source package.

-- 
Michael Heironimus