NFS Samba gateway

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Author: Austin Godber
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Subject: NFS Samba gateway
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).

Austin