[DRBD-user] Alternatives to NFS ?

Todd Denniston Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil
Fri Feb 17 16:27:26 CET 2006

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


jeffb wrote:
> Well, Samba might not be as bad as you would think. I've used samba for
> years, and I got very used to some of it's older limitations, but with
> CIFS, and the unix extensions, I recently discovered that samba was
> running very much like NFS does.  File ownership and permissions all
> come across as they should (as long as the UID's and GID's on the
> systems match), and tools like chmod work just as they do for local
> drives.
> 
> I wouldn't be afraid of giving samba/cifs with the unix extensions a
> serious try.
> 
> -Jeff
> 

Is there a HOWTO (or subsection thereof) you can point us to for setting up 
these "unix extensions"?
And what version of Samba are you using to accomplish the use of them?

Thanks.



-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter



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