[lug] Re: [co-sage] NFS clients for windows

John Hernandez John.Hernandez at noaa.gov
Wed Nov 29 09:58:37 MST 2000


Performance would probably range from acceptable to terrible.  To be
sure, are we talking about a switched GigE network or an overburdened
shared 10Mb ethernet on the NFS servers <-> Linux NFS client / Samba
server segment?

Then again, if you've written smb.conf for one machine, the hard part is
done.  You might as well go the distance and push it out to the rest of
the UNIX file servers.  This way you won't create a single point of
failure, and performance will be better.  Look at it this way: you
probably have fewer file servers than clients, so you're still touching
less OS's in the end.

Single sign-on and/or non-kludge password synchronization is another
issue.  It remains one of the IT Holy Grails.  We can only hope that one
day, Microsoft and UNIX vendors/hackers will make it possible.  LDAP,
NIS+, Kerberos, who cares...make it native, secure, easy to manage, and
make it interoperable.  I'm obviously asking too much :)

Anders Knudsen wrote:
> 
> On 28 Nov 2000, at 15:36, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> 
> > How about a Linux box that mounts all the NFS partitions and exports them
> > via Samba? Then you'd only have to maintain Samba on one machine.
> >
> 
> Ouch. This would be *very* slow.
> 
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