NFS vs Samba - direction?

Post #215,687 by broomberg 7/19/05 9:25:14 PM Reply	NFS vs Samba - direction? I've hit a situation where I might need to kill Samba usage. One of the alternatives would be an NFS gateway. Goal: Share Linux based storage with Windows users. Windows users are members of different domains. There are not a lot of users (hmm, 20), but we need them to authenticate against ADS, not requiring a different set of passwords. Current pain: Samba 3 going against our ADS infrastructure. It has worked almost OK for about a year, except requiring constant winbind restarts to deal with hangs. It has just died an ugly death, after the latest patch of our ADS servers caused them to vary in their reponses, allowing and disallowing users and groups. Possible alternative: NFS gateway running on a Win 2K box. Other possible solution: Setup multiple IP addresses on the ethernet card, and have multiple Samba instances running, each representing a single domain on old Samba 2 domain model emulation. Has anyone done either?
Post #215,732 by admin 7/20/05 10:27:48 AM Reply	I'm certainly not an expert But in my limited experience NFS on Win2K/XP is Teh Extr3me Painz0rz, somewhat like Samba on Unix can be. FWIW. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #215,735 by pwhysall 7/20/05 10:44:09 AM Reply	It's perfectly workable... ...if you've got NIS+ or PC-NFS infrastructure. Doing a simple mount is a royal pain in the bum, though. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #215,760 by admin 7/20/05 12:41:05 PM Reply	This is using PC-NFS It's just buggy, from what I've seen. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #215,741 by folkert 7/20/05 11:19:01 AM Reply	Not really fun. BUT. You could just add IP Addresses to the NIC, then seperate Samba instances on each IP Addr. Giving them each a seperate NETBIOS name. It would work, but dang. Also, would it be worth updating to a newer version of Samba? The decision is yours to make. The NFS gateway approach will work, but no where close to what you might expect. Have you tried a "RedHat RPMS" install and attempt to communicate through them. The worst part is that it is the ever moving target of Windows. Once you get past a certain point, it changes its functionality or performance. Plus, we all know SAMBA is a thorn in M$es side. If you need another course of action there is another. An IPX Gateway sharing and using the IPX stuff for Linux too. Though I'd love to see the faces of the Windows admin when it is suggested. The IPX stuff is quite fast too. Six of One, Half a dozen, of the other. Sorry to see it flail like this. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [image\|http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg\|\|\|\|]

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