[luau] nfs and samba

[Myles Uyema]

Quite fine.  Naturally, accessing the same file simultaneously through 
NFS and Samba may bring up some locking issues, so try not to do that.  

I find it generally easier to create windows usernames identical to the 
unix usernames, as it makes user mapping much easier between Unix and 
Windows.

Most likely you'll run Samba in Workgroup mode, and if you create samba 
users (smbpasswd -a) with the same password as their Windows logins, 
it's fairly easy to maintain permissions.

...And hinting at advanced topics, running Samba as a domain 
controller, or possibly in conjunction with an XFS filesystem (Access 
Control Lists for finer grain file permissions).

The www.samba.org FAQ will describe more, and refer you to yet more 
mailing lists =)

> I'm considering sharing a single filesystem using both nfs and samba. Most of
> the discussions I find on the web talk about using samba to re-export a filesystem
> mounted using NFS (and what a bad idea that is). I just want to have an NFS
> daemon for serving unix clients and a smbd for serving windows clients, the
> filesystem itself will be local to both daemons. Any problem here, can samba
> and NFS play nice?