: Re: Multiple smbd processes generated
David Collier-Brown
davecb at canada.sun.com
Wed Mar 1 14:56:09 GMT 2000
Andrew Boswell wrote:
> NFS hopping is pretty crucial to our current Samba architecture. Its
> one of the features which we really like about Samba and usually works
> fine over our network. So we can't get rid of the problem by only
> Samba serving local filestore.
If you're using automounter and NIS to serve home
directories via NFS, you can use a Samba option
to auto-redirect the SMB connections to the actual
fileserver with the home directories. This basically
allows samba to say says "redirect your mount request
to <server x>", where server x has the actual disks
in question and is also running Samba.
This is also discussed in
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch06_06.html#ch06-27466
I think one could fake a homedir map without using nis: It's
a "mere matetr of programming" (;-))
Personally, I try to centralize home directories onto
a fairly large server, and use the budgetary savings
to fund RAIDing it and ordering some fast-repair options...
--dave
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