On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Will Ryder <wjry...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have NFS mount of netapp filer on debian 6 and on a rhel 5 machines. > > I have samba server running on both machines that windows pc can connect to > and access the nfs mount. > > Is this advisable ? As I cannot have strict file locking. Or is there some > way to make nfs and CID share work together file locking? > > Thanks > > Will
Do not interpose a Linux box as a file server in between your clients and the NetApp if you can avoid it. It's a significant performance penalty, and resolving the permissions and group management is a !@#$!@#$ nightmare. Samba 4.x can run NFSv4, but the features are still difficult to manage. If you've spent all that money for a NetApp, let it do the CIFS services directly, if at all possible. This will require some integration between the CIFS and NFS account management, but I think you'll be on eheck of a lot happier. And oh, yes: *PLEASE* tell me your NetApp admin set up your NetApp filesystems ad UTF8, becuase otherwise, you can have some real adventures with shared Windows and NFS access. (Windows will record international characters in filenames that the NFS cannot deal with, even to delete, without UTF8".) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktikrfrw5q4itchueaazgjo2nmr0...@mail.gmail.com
