SAMBA CIFS PROXY

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Mar 9 14:35:55 GMT 2006


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:33:02AM +0100, Laurenz, Dirk wrote:
> how is the current state about using samba3 or 4 as a CIFS Proxy for
> WAN networks?

As you probably know Samba4 does have CIFS proxy
functionality. But I'm not aware of anything that does WAN
caching or round-trip elimination or something like that.

If you want caching for mostly read-only data, you might
consider using AFS and Samba as a front-end to that...

Volker
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