samba - Sep 2004 - Sorry, Gerald (Jerry) Carter now please help me

Sir,
Sorry Sir (Gerald Carter). It was a typograhic mistake i came to know late.
 
              I am a student of computer science. I have in my course of study a
project to be done. I am interested in doing project related to Samba.
 
             I have got one of the ideas for the project. Can anybody be kindly
help me regarding this idea? Please do reply about this idea.
 
               In the project I am planning to achieve server independency ,
means ---Consider  an organization is having 2 kinds of server SAMBA and NFS,
then if a request is made from a Samba client and required file is on NFS server
then the request should get satisfied. I will be planning to convert a SAMBA
request into a NFS request that is finally be given to the NFS server. The
client does not care about the thing that to which server it has made request.
               
                 Also, I have to make the similar thing in case of NFS client
and SAMBA server.
         In this way it will help the system administrator to achieve a server
independency.
 
Can anybody please rate this idea as --------
        very simple
        simple
        good to do a project
         very difficult
         best one
         don't do such project.
 
If the ideas is not up to the mark, can anybody please send me a good idea for
the project. Better to have a new idea.
 
Please!!!!
 
Thank You.
 
Regards,
Amar.


		
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Hi,

(sorry, I am not Jerry)
>                In the project I am planning to achieve server independency
> , means ---Consider  an organization is having 2 kinds of server SAMBA and
> NFS, then if a request is made from a Samba client and required file is on
> NFS server then the request should get satisfied. I will be planning to
> convert a SAMBA request into a NFS request that is finally be given to the
> NFS server. The client does not care about the thing that to which server
> it has made request.
>
>                  Also, I have to make the similar thing in case of NFS
> client and SAMBA server. In this way it will help the system administrator
> to achieve a server independency.
>
> Can anybody please rate this idea as --------
>         very simple
>         simple
>         good to do a project
>          very difficult
>          best one
>          don't do such project.
Sounds quite simple to me: Install samba on an NFS client and you have the 
first part ready. Then take a linux box, smbmount an smb share and reexport 
it via NFS, and you are ready.

BUT: You will get into trouble with

- - file locking
- - authentication (there is _no_ authentication with NFS)
- - permissions
- - speed
...

I even don't think that such a setup would be useful for a system 
administrator, so better look for something else.

Just my opinion (and I am not Gerald Carter),

Christopher

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    Zentrum IT-Dienste
    N5.110
    odenbach@uni-paderborn.de
    Tel.: +49 5251 60 5315
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MUDRANKIT AMAR wrote:

| I am a student of computer science. I have in my
| course of study a project to be done. I am interested
| in doing project related to Samba.
|
| I have got one of the ideas for the project. Can
| anybody be kindly help me regarding this idea? Please
| do reply about this idea.
|
| In the project I am planning to achieve server
| independency , means ---Consider  an organization is
| having 2 kinds of server SAMBA and NFS, then if a
| request is made from a Samba client and required
| file is on NFS server then the request should get
| satisfied. I will be planning to convert a SAMBA
| request into a NFS request that is finally be given
| to the NFS server. The client does not care about
| the thing that to which server it has made request.

Using Samba as a gateway to NFS has been in use for
a while.  You just NFS mount the remote fs and re-export
via Samba.  No changes necessary.

|
| Also, I have to make the similar thing in case of
| NFS client and SAMBA server.  In this way it will help
| the system administrator to achieve a server
| independency.

Can't say that I would recommend re-export an smbfs or
cifsvfs file system via NFS.

| If the ideas is not up to the mark, can anybody please
| send me a good idea for the project. Better to have
| a new idea.

Are you looking for network administration projects
or coding projects ?





cheers, jerry
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