[CentOS] Re: CentOS 4 Stalling at boot time after mapping a remote samba drive.
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Mar 15 20:40:18 UTC 2007
Jason Ross wrote:
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> Scott Silva wrote:
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>>John Summerfield spake the following on 3/14/2007 5:51 PM:
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>>>Jason Ross wrote:
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>>>>John Summerfield wrote:
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>>>>>Jason Ross wrote:
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>>>>>>\\10.0.0.11\users /backup smbfs defaults 0 0
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>>>>>Change all your backslashes to two backslashes.
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>>>>>Why smbfs and not cifs?
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>>>>There is a samba box that holds all the windows shares on it. It also
>>>>runs a backup on the samba shares.
>>>>The boss wanted the email server to be backed up to a folder on the
>>>>samba share.
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>>>Why smbfs and not cifs?
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>>If they are both linux servers, why not nfs?
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> I'd like too, I am relatively new to this company (8 mos) and the only other
> tech has given up trying.
> Management's only contact with Linux is with samba. They are dead set on having
> everything samba.
> I have a medium amount of experience with Linux administration so I cannot come
> up with an explanation convincing enough for them.
>
> PS: can I set the NFS to point to a sub folder in the samba share?
> Jason
The reason I asked Why smbfs and not cifs? is that the latter is newer.
Neither supports POSIX semantics, and I did have problems with Samba
shares last time I accessed them regularly on Linux. On the basis of
"once bitten, twice shy" I've not done so again for many years:-) Since
Samba 1.x.
NFS sharing is 'the one true way' for Linux and Unix
Here are some configured shares:
[summer at bilby ~]$ ssh ns cat /etc/exports | grep /var/local/mirrors |
grep -v Linux
/var/local/mirrors/linux/tmp 192.168.0.0/16(rw,no_root_squash,async)
/var/local/mirrors 192.168.0.0/16(ro,no_root_squash,async)
[summer at bilby ~]$
Here is me accessing one:
[summer at bilby ~]$ ls /net/ns//var/local/mirrors
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 6 root 4096 Feb 4 07:19 Windows
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4096 Apr 12 2006 drdos
drwxr-sr-x 22 root 4096 Dec 17 09:30 linux
drwx------ 2 root 16384 Aug 3 2006 lost+found
drwxrwxrwt 2 root 4096 Feb 25 00:35 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 4096 Dec 31 2005 unix
[summer at bilby ~]$
There's how I configured the client to automatically mount when required:
[summer at bilby ~]$ grep net /etc/auto.master
/net /etc/auto.net
[summer at bilby ~]$
Here's another way to configure nfs mounts:
[summer at bilby ~]$ grep nfs /etc/fstab
kookaburra.demo.lan:/var/local /var/local nfs auto
ns.demo.lan:/var/local/mirrors/linux/RHEL/ /mnt/nfs nfs auto,ro
[summer at bilby ~]$
Beware linewrap.
This mounts a Windows share:
mount.cifs \\\\coco\\profile /mnt/coco/ --verbose\
-o \
user=administrator,password=bigfatsecret,ip=10.0.0.253,domain=class.lan
--
Cheers
John
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