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

Thu Mar 27 20:39:36 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

On Thursday 27 March 2008 19:35:57 Les Mikesell wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 March 2008 18:58:16 Scott Silva wrote:
> >> on 3-27-2008 11:40 AM Anne Wilson spake the following:
> >>> On Thursday 27 March 2008 17:01:13 Les Mikesell wrote:
> >>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>>>>> It seems like a kludge to use cifs to share between two linux boxes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Because I would have to do samba anyway, as windows laptops from
> >>>>> other family members want to access from time to time.  They always
> >>>>> bring them to me if any configuration work or maintenance needs
> >>>>> doing, and even to work on my LAN when their network is down for any
> >>>>> reason.  In particular, one directory that I samba share is a
> >>>>> repository that my daughter and I both need access to, and its
> >>>>> content changes fairly often.  I didn't want to have to run two
> >>>>> systems for sharing.
> >>>>
> >>>> You can do both fairly easily and transparently.  The usual reason for
> >>>> not using NFS is that it isn't secure if client users have local root
> >>>> access (or can boot something that would) - but that probably doesn't
> >>>> matter for a home setup.
> >>>
> >>> I guess that when I've nothing more urgent to do I ought to read up on
> >>> NFS.
> >>>
> >>> Anne
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > OK - apart from man pages and general googling, any particular
> > recommended reading?
>
> It's not that complicated unless you want automounting. On the server,
> edit /etc/exports and add something like:
>
> /home  192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async,no_root_squash)
> (your client subnet, of course)
> and
> service nfs restart
> (or exportfs -a if it is already running)
>
> and on the clients where you want the same /home mounted
> in /etc/fstab add:
> server_name:/home  /home     nfs     exec,rw,bg,soft,intr 0 0
> and 'mount -a'
>
> You need to have consistent login name to uid mapping across machines
> and all the usual 'yum install nfs', chkconfig and service invocations
> apply for installing and managing it.

With any luck I'll get some time tomorrow to take a look at that.  Thanks

Anne
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