Dave Burns wrote:
One of our users has a NAS or lan disk that he wants to make available (read only) to a number of people in our office. The disk's interface with the world is samba. Our shop uses NFS. How possible/suicidal would it be to try to mount this disk on a linux box via samba, then export it again via NFS? Would it work at all, be ridiculously slow, or bring Armageddon?
It might work, I think it will. However, you double the points of possible failure
I've googled around, but I haven't discovered the right search terms to separate people who are comparing the two from the loonies like me who want to piggyback them. Or maybe I am the only one nutty enough to have even considered this (as if each weren't flakey enough on their own).
Mounting with cifs is generally trivial (samba isn't required). I don't think this is giving away too many secrets:
sudo mount.cifs //coco/reminst /mnt/coco.remoteinstall -o user=summer,ip=10.0.0.253,domain=class.corridors
Note: one line. Note, it's possible to put the credentials into a file beyond prying eyes. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)
