Julien Boppert <boppert@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de>
wrote:> we have an Enterprise 450 with Solaris 2.6 and mounted NFS-shares from
> an Sparc 20 (Solaris 2.6 too). On the Enterprise we run Samba 2.0.5a as
> PDC and export the mounted Shares with Samba to our WIN NT 4.0
> Servicepack 3 Clients.
Erk! It's generally a bad idea to import data
via NFS and re-export it via Samba: the data has to make
two trips across the net, which doubles the latency and
the load on the net.
I recommend running an smb server on each machine where
the disks are. Sometimes you just can't, and so Samba
doesn't prohibit re-exporting[1], but it's a bad idea.
> I think the locking from the NFS will not work with Samba locking. Can
> it be true ?
Fairly likely: Samba depends on the system's underlying
locking working, and NFS locking is unimpressive[2].
--dave
[1. NFS explicitly prevents you from doing this.
2. Locking breaks the NFS design principle that the
server is stateless. This make it both hard and
politically incorrect (;-)) ]
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