[Samba] Sharing an NFS mount via samba

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri May 27 17:37:58 MDT 2011


On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:32:14AM +0100, will ryder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >From  what i understand sharing an NFS mount via samba is not a good idea.

Depends on whether the NFS locking works or not.

> Is the any way to make this work with strict locks = yes ?

Depends on whether the NFS locking works or not.

> The NFS mount is on a NetApp filer, I cannot create users on the Netapp.
> therefore mounting via NFS allows me create users on a Linux machine.
> and manage the access to data.
> 
> Any advice to maintain the data integrity would be helpful

Don't access the same files at the same time from NFS and Samba.


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