samba - May 2000 - Question on SMB in place of NFS

Hello, I have been using samba for many years and find it solid and reliable :-)
However we are experiencing problems between our HP unix servers running NFS
because of the way RPC is used as the underlying basis if NFS. I would like to
know if any plans are a foot to provide a smbfs implementation on other systems
then just Linux. If there are non I would be willing to take the source and help
in the development of this type of functionality. Your imput will be welcomed.

Clive Talbutt
Senior Systems Administrator
HSBC


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Could you be a little more specific on the issues you have having with HP NFS?
We are trying to use HP/CIFS(samba) and are having a good bit of trouble.  In
particular, very poor performance on connecting to automounted file systems.
Best I can tell at this point, only automounted file systems from HP 
workstations.  Sun/Samba combination works ok in the same environment.

Sid V.
> 
> Hello, I have been using samba for many years and find it solid and
reliable
:-)
> However we are experiencing problems between our HP unix servers running
NFS
> because of the way RPC is used as the underlying basis if NFS. I would like
to
> know if any plans are a foot to provide a smbfs implementation on other 
systems
> then just Linux. If there are non I would be willing to take the source and
help
> in the development of this type of functionality. Your imput will be
welcomed.
> 
> Clive Talbutt
> Senior Systems Administrator
> HSBC
> 
> 
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Sid VanHouten                   svanhout@gmr.com 
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Electronic Data Systems 
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