samba - Oct 2007 - Sharing a shared folder

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?
Brandon

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.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo@samba.org>
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <ssorce@redhat.com>