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@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@bilby ~]$
Here is me accessing one:
[summer@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@bilby ~]$
There's how I configured the client to automatically mount when required:
[summer@bilby ~]$ grep net /etc/auto.master
/net /etc/auto.net
[summer@bilby ~]$
Here's another way to configure nfs mounts:
[summer@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@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
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Cheers
John
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