[luau] nfs and samba

[Ho'ala Greevy]

Dave,


if your goal is to use a single filesystem to share files between *nix and
windows clients, it seems to me the most straightforward solution would be
to just use samba.  On the *nix side, you can use /etc/fstab to
automagically mount samba shares upon boot (I think there was a post with
syntax tips re: this a few weeks ago) or you can mount em on the fly via
smbmount.  I'm not sure how well smbmount is supported on Unix variants,
although it is built-in with most Linux distributions.

For the windows side of things, there are options in the smb.conf file
that will auto sync PAM and smbpasswd passwords on your Linux box.

samba for governor,
Ho'ala


> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:32, burnst001 at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
>> 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?