[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 00/11] cifs: implement multisession mounts (try #2)

[Jamie Lokier]

Steve French wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> > The solution I'm proposing will make a shared CIFS mount as easy to set
> > up and deal with as it is with NFS. Which is to say, non-trivial but
> > doable for the average sysadmin with a clue.
> 
> Probably easier, since for the krb5 case ActiveDirectory kerberos
> (Windows or Samba 4 KDC) with cifs is not too bad to setup.
> 
> For the NTLMv2 case it is very easy to setup.

Neither of those are as easy as setting up basic NFS - by a long way.

But maybe easier than setting up kerberized NFS :-)

-- Jamie