Exporting Samba mount using NFS

[David Collier-Brown]

Novgorodsky, Sergey wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I have a Windows application which knows how to write/read files on NFS share.
> I also have a Linux app which is a Samba plugin. 
> My Win app must be able to read/write files through my Samba plugin.
> So, I have my Samba  share on a Linux box and I want to export the share for 
> the Windows machine as NFS drive.
> Has anyone done such configuration ( export Samba share as NFS share), is it even possible to do it?
>
> Thanks,
> Sergey
>  
>
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You asked that on the development list, and probably want to ask it at
samba at lists.samba.org (;-))

The answer is yes, it will work, as will the inverse, but at a
performance cost, and sometimes Windows clients and
servers will drop connections due to inactivity and make
your share appear to disappear.  If so you'll need to export
a directory with symlinks to the share to kludge it (;-))

--dave

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