similar to: using samba and smbfs as a replacement for nfs ?

Hi, I've users connecting to a samba server via WinNTWS 4.0 (home directories are /home/%u) While workstations have both Windows and Linux installed, I want to allow users to connect to their /home directory when logging into Linux. Do you think it's better to automount the folders using an NFS mount or to use an SMBFS mount ? What are advantages and drawbacks of each methods ?

I periodically see smbfs questions get asked on this list, and they usually get one of two responses: 1. smbfs is a kernel module; this list is not the appropriate place to be asking smbfs questions. 2. You should be using cifs instead. (Please let me know if either if these is incorrect.) I was surprised to see, however, that the smbmount / mount.smbfs manpage makes no mention of cifs as being

Dear ALL, IHAC who would like to use Sun Fire X4500 to be the NFS server for the backend services, and would like to see the potential performance gain comparing to their existing systems. However the outputs of the I/O stress test with iozone show the mixed results as follows: * The read performance sharply degrades (almost down to 1/20, i.e from 2,000,000 down to 100,000) when the

Hello, I have the following Samba RPMs installed... samba-client-3.0.26a-0.5 samba-3.0.26a-0.5 samba-pdb-3.0.26a-0.5 yast2-samba-server-2.9.33-0.3 kdebase3-samba-3.2.1-68.62 samba-winbind-3.0.26a-0.5 yast2-samba-client-2.9.18-0.3 samba-python-3.0.26a-0.5 I used to be able to do a mount with -t smbfs, but not I get this message whenever I try it. Version

Dear all there is first port to me plz if u have any idea about mount windows share inside Solaris10 OS with mount -F smbfs or mount -F cifs thanks to advanced best, *Hosam Al Ali UNIX System Administrator - GIT Libya * SCSA - SCNA - SCSECA - MCSAM - MCSE Phone +218919240730 +963 955 287841 Blog: http://hosam.wordpress.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/hosamalali

Hello, I've got a FreeBSD 5.5 box running Samba 3.0.21 and every-time I try to do a "mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password // server/share /mnt/folder" I get the error "smbfs: -o username=: option not supported". I've google'd this with no luck... any help in the right direction is appreciated. --- Jason Zondor

Hi, I'm trying to mount a Windows folder from a Linux box with the command: # mount -t smbfs (...) but I get the error: "mount: unknown filesystem type 'smbfs'". Does this mean that CentOS mount doesn't support smbfs type ? If so, how can I enable it ? I'm using 5.1 Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito

This was working a couple of weeks ago, but it's broken now. When I issue a command like 'mount -t smbfs //server/share /mount/point' I get an error that says " mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //mrbig/grego$, or too many mounted file systems " However, when I issue the command 'smbmount //server/share /mount/point/ it works just fine.

'lo all Im wondering if anyone is getting the same problem with smbfs as i am with the 2.2.x kernels when i try to smbmount a share i get the following on the screen "SMBFS: need mount version 6" and also on the telnet shell or actual shell "mount error: Invalid argument Please look at smbmount's manual page...." the mans have nothing i revert back to 2.0.x and it

I know smbfs is not samba, but perhaps somebody here has seen this error before. Basically, I can't use smbfs: [root@pandora samba]# mount //buildmaster/andreas -o username=andreas -t smbfs /mnt/smbfs added interface ip=10.0.17.30 bcast=10.0.23.255 nmask=255.255.248.0 error connecting to 10.0.16.6:445 (Connection refused) Password: [root@pandora samba]# ls -la /mnt/smbfs ls: /mnt/smbfs:

Vlad. I still got the same problem - 'ls | wc -l' returned incorretc numbers. I installed the following patches with the sequence vs. the kerner 2.4.18: 1. 00-smbfs-2.4.18-codepage.patch.gz 2. 01-smbfs-2.4.18-lfs.patch.gz 3. 02-smbfs-2.4.18-unicode.patch.gz 4. smbfs-2.4.19-pre9-readdir.patch After installed patches, I ran 'make modules' and so on. Any more

I continue to have the same problems in Samba 2.0.6 with smbfs that I was seeing in 2.0.5: (1) After a mount (mount -t smbfs etc.), the volume is often not yet fully mounted. For instance, if I write a Perl script like: system('mount -t smbfs -o password=pwd //MACHINE/SHARE /mnt/machine_share'); system('find /mnt/machine_share > find.out'); the 'find' may not find

Hi. I've been at it for a solid week now....trying to figure out how to mount a smbfs-resource at boot. See i need to do the following; mount -t smbfs //<machine_name>/<share> /home/<usr_name>/music ...only thing is, I have to run the cmd as a regular user. The easiest thing would offcourse be to have i run at when booting, but i don't know how to do that. Any help

Hi all I am having trouble with my SMBFS and it is the following Every time I try to connect to other machine in my network, throught the command MOUNT, the folowing ERROR appears. I've already tried to see the manpage but i had not success. [root@backup_sp bin] mount -t smbfs //sarq/c /mnt/windows Password: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbnt (8)

Hi all... another lurker and first-time poster... if I forget something relevant please let me know... Anyway, have tried to make a kernel on two different machines under the latest (as of 04:37AM 4 September 2003 -0500 (EDT)) 4.9-PRERELEASE **AND** 5.1-p2 and get the error message as shown below. I am including (at the end) the uname-a from both of the systems. Each of them will compile

Hallo, Im trying to get the support for smbfs back in FC6_x86_64. I've been told (correct me if I'm wrong) that the newest version of samba has suppoort for smbs I download the samba-3.0.23d from http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/Fedora/RPMS/i386/core/5/ But these are the files for FC 5 (besides they are for th i386 system) Installing samba-3.0.23d-1.i386.rpm results in an

Hi I am trying to create a boot diskette(s) that is able to mount a remote drive (on an NT server) using smbfs. I have tried doing this, but I can't fit smbd, nmbd, smbmount and smbumount all onto my root disk. What is the minimum set of files required for smbfs to work? What docs should I read to help me? I am running RedHat 6.2 (with a custom kernel v 2.2.14, ntfs and network card

Fellow SAMBA lovers: I've been using 'mount -t smbfs blah blah' for over a year to do backup/restore. I recently upgraded SAMBA from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3a and the NT Server I was attaching to from v4 to Win2k. Now 'mount -t smbfs' returns an error. However, smbmount with the same parameters works, so I just changed the scripts to use smbmount. I suspect it's the Windoze server

Hi, I'm looking for a patch to the redhat 2.4 kernel to add Unicode support to smbfs. My particular version is 2.4.26. I searched the list archives and found someone named Urban Widmark claimed to have a patch for 2.4.18, but his URL is outdated. If anyone has this patch, please let me know -- this would help me greatly. Thanks! - Julian

I have a system that I'm vetting as a NAS server. It has a 2.0TB XFS filesystem mounted on /storage and I'm doing benchmarks using nfs3, nfs4, and samba. I'm testing via iozone by mounting the filesystem from my "nas client" box and then running iozone on the mounted filesystem. NFS seems pretty fast - ie, several orders of magnitude faster than samba, and I'm