Linux workstation to Linux Server file access???

Gentlemen;

Previously I've run Samba on my linux servers to allow access from my
Windoze desktops. This worked with limitations but was usable.

Now I've replaced many of my desktops with Linux workstations and I have
tried mounting the same samba shares successfully but I'm experiencing
quite some difficulties with ownerships and permissions (especially
permissions).

My research and other groups are telling me that I should rely on *nix
native network sharing (nsf?) to accomplish this.

So, to attest to my ignorance on this issue, please explain if nsf is the
preferred way to go AND how it should normally be mounted?

I have servers and a nas device and I have been playing with variations of
the mount -t nsf blah blah without any success.

Please provide some mount examples or preferably how I could make an entry
into my fstab file to automount these shares?

Thanks millions.

Bob

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:29:02 -0400, bobmct wrote:
> Gentlemen;
>
> Previously I've run Samba on my linux servers to allow access from my
> Windoze desktops. This worked with limitations but was usable.
>
> Now I've replaced many of my desktops with Linux workstations and I have
> tried mounting the same samba shares successfully but I'm experiencing
> quite some difficulties with ownerships and permissions (especially
> permissions).
>
> My research and other groups are telling me that I should rely on *nix
> native network sharing (nsf?) to accomplish this.
>
> So, to attest to my ignorance on this issue, please explain if nsf is the
> preferred way to go AND how it should normally be mounted?
>
> I have servers and a nas device and I have been playing with variations of
> the mount -t nsf blah blah without any success.



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bobmct wrote:

> Gentlemen;
>
> Previously I've run Samba on my linux servers to allow access from my
> Windoze desktops. This worked with limitations but was usable.
>
> Now I've replaced many of my desktops with Linux workstations and I have
> tried mounting the same samba shares successfully but I'm experiencing
> quite some difficulties with ownerships and permissions (especially
> permissions).
>
> My research and other groups are telling me that I should rely on *nix
> native network sharing (nsf?) to accomplish this.
>
> So, to attest to my ignorance on this issue, please explain if nsf is the
> preferred way to go AND how it should normally be mounted?
>
> I have servers and a nas device and I have been playing with variations of
> the mount -t nsf blah blah without any success.
>
> Please provide some mount examples or preferably how I could make an entry
> into my fstab file to automount these shares?
>
> Thanks millions.
>
> Bob

It's nfs, not nsf, and is very well documented.

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bobmct <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Gentlemen;

>Previously I've run Samba on my linux servers to allow access from my
>Windoze desktops. This worked with limitations but was usable.

>Now I've replaced many of my desktops with Linux workstations and I have
>tried mounting the same samba shares successfully but I'm experiencing
>quite some difficulties with ownerships and permissions (especially
>permissions).

>My research and other groups are telling me that I should rely on *nix
>native network sharing (nsf?) to accomplish this.

Yes. do not use samba for Linux to linux.


>So, to attest to my ignorance on this issue, please explain if nsf is the
>preferred way to go AND how it should normally be mounted?

Go onto the server (ie the machine whose files are to mounted on another
machine).
edit /etc/exports
Let us say it is the subdirectory /home/donald that is to be mounted on the
remote machine

/home/donald 192.168.0.5(rw,async) 192.168.0.6(rw,async)

where 192.169.0.5 and 192.168.0.6 are the two machine that will mount this
directory on their own system.

Then do
exportfs -a

Make sure that nfs is working
service nfs start

Make sure that the other machine are in /etc/hosts.allow
portmap:192.168.0.5 192.168.0.6



Now go to the machives on which this directory is to be mounted. Edit
/etc/fstab
192.168.0.2:/home/donald /home/duck nfs rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,bg,intr 0 0
(all one line)

Make sure nfs is working
service nfs start

Then do
mount -a
and the directory /home/donald on the server will now be identical to the
directory /home/duck on your machine.






>I have servers and a nas device and I have been playing with variations of
>the mount -t nsf blah blah without any success.

>Please provide some mount examples or preferably how I could make an entry
>into my fstab file to automount these shares?

>Thanks millions.

>Bob

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:29:02 -0400, bobmct <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>Gentlemen;

>Previously I've run Samba on my linux servers to allow access from my
>Windoze desktops. This worked with limitations but was usable.

>Now I've replaced many of my desktops with Linux workstations and I have
>tried mounting the same samba shares successfully but I'm experiencing
>quite some difficulties with ownerships and permissions (especially
>permissions).

>My research and other groups are telling me that I should rely on *nix
>native network sharing (nsf?) to accomplish this.

>So, to attest to my ignorance on this issue, please explain if nsf is the
>preferred way to go AND how it should normally be mounted?

>I have servers and a nas device and I have been playing with variations of
>the mount -t nsf blah blah without any success.

go to google; search for "nfs howto"

use /etc/exports on the serving system and
an entry in /etc/fstab on the client system.

> >Now I've replaced many of my desktops with Linux workstations and I have
> >tried mounting the same samba shares successfully but I'm experiencing
> >quite some difficulties with ownerships and permissions (especially
> >permissions).

Samba and CIFS on Linux has the same and maybe more features than the
NT version of SMB so I don't know what limited usability you had...

The problem with the permissions are likely that cause of users putting
shared files onto their shared dir as root, and then things get
screwed, as samba, which runs as nobody or samba doesn't have control
over those files anymore. So make shure all your users, groups and
permissions are correct on all the machines otherwise NFS might give
the same permission problems.

Constant Meiring