samba and multiple servers

[Peter Samuelson]

[Seth Vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>]
> I've got many servers that act as project spaces for the
> experimentalist and theorist groups in physics. For the unix side
> accessing the data is over automounted nfs partitions. This works
> fine - however when accessing them from samba its VERY slow - mostly
> b/c its making 2 different network connections - smb to the win
> machine and then an additional connection over nfs to the automounted
> file server. So I've been setting up smb servers (via samba of
> course) on each of the project space machines that need windows
> access. This works very well and performance is great.

If each user only has need of a single share, treat it as a home dir.
You can specify home directories with User Manager for Domains.

If any project member could need access to arbitrarily many shares, I
guess you're stuck with the pile o' shortcuts as someone else
suggested.

Peter