NFS Samba gateway

[Don Fitz]

Anyone know of any SAMBA and NFS tutorials online for the complete 
novice? I'm using RH 8.0 and I'm want to network a Mac OS X TiBook and 
a Windows box.
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 08:26 PM, Craig White wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:23, Austin Godber wrote:
>> Mike Starke wrote:
>>> Am I missing something, or are these two the same thing?
>>> George's way does not require Samba on a *nix box, and it
>>> utilizes file sharing in Windows. In short, having
>>> a Liniux box with the directory NFS exported and as a Samba share
>>> is, in a sense, the gateway you are looking for.
>>
>> I think the point is he has Solaris boxes with NFS exports and he 
>> wants
>> to be able to mount them with the Windows boxes.  Rather than getting 
>> an
>> NFS client for Win2k or a samba server on a solaris box I think he 
>> wants
>> to put a linux box in the middle ... thus the gateway.  That is, the
>> Linux box will mount the NFS exports on the suns and then in turn show
>> those as samba shares that that the win boxes can mount.
>>
>> This may work.  It may suck too.  But it may work.  Then again there
>> could be a very specific reason it doesn't work (one which eludes me 
>> at
>> the moment).
>>
> -----
> The biggest problem that I see with all of this is file ownership &
> permissions which is decidedly different between NFS & samba and it 
> will
> require some overly simplified file ownership directive in samba such 
> as
> inherit permissions.
>
> I think that this begs the issue...the best file services design should
> incorporate a logical and consistent flow of ownership & permissions 
> and
> clearly, this ain't it. This plan chooses expedience in favor of
> stability.
>
> Craig
>
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Don Fitzsimmons
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