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

[Jeff Howell]

> 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.
> > >

We do this very thing here on our enterprise network. Really no
performance issues. Users are validated via NIS and have dummy accounts
(shell=/dev/null) that just do authentication. The Samba servers are SUN
machines rather than linux PCs, but the are simply exporting NFS shares
off of our big NFS servers to the NT machines.
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 Jeff Howell
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