Jason Ross wrote: > > Scott Silva wrote: > >>John Summerfield spake the following on 3/14/2007 5:51 PM: >> >> >>>Jason Ross wrote: >>> >>> >>>>John Summerfield wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Jason Ross wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>\\10.0.0.11\users /backup smbfs defaults 0 0 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>Change all your backslashes to two backslashes. >>>>> >>>>>Why smbfs and not cifs? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>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. >>>> >>>> >>>Why smbfs and not cifs? >>> >>> >>> >>If they are both linux servers, why not nfs? >> >> >> >> > 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 -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list