[CentOS] Re: new CentOS5.1, samba help requested

Thu Mar 27 19:39:26 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:20:14 John R Pierce wrote:
> Scott Silva wrote:
> > NFS will be much better for the linux to linux connections because it
> > passes native system calls on the files instead of a protocol that is
> > emulated and made to work.
>
> also, the following significant difference in user semantics between
> SMB/CIFS and NFS....   in SMB, the client-initiated session
> authenticates as a user on the server....  in a multiuser windows
> system, each user would have his own session to a given server.    This
> doesn't play very well in Unix environments where the file system mounts
> are global to all users.
>
> in NFS, each file opened has user ID, group ID, so its more suitable for
> a multiuser environment on a single session.   HOWEVER, its critical
> that all systems participating in NFS have the SAME user #s group #s,
> hence its often used in conjunction with NIS or another shared identity
> system.
>
That sounds as though I have to get my head around a whole new way of 
thinking!

Anne
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