[Samba] SAMBA and NFS

[bastard operater]

Thank you for the response.  Would there still be a performance problem if I 
had two NICs in the PC?  One to connect to the NFS share and the second NIC 
to connect to the windows PCs?  I am talking about a maximum of 20 people 
connecting to the samba share with at most 5-6 people passing data over the 
share.  The samba server would be a 2.2GHz PC with 512MB of RAM.

Thanks,

BOFH1234

>From: "Eric Boehm" <boehm at nortelnetworks.com>
>Reply-To: "Eric Boehm" <boehm at nortelnetworks.com>
>To: bastard operater <bofh1234 at hotmail.com>
>CC: samba at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: [Samba] SAMBA and NFS
>Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:35:28 -0400
>
>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:23:37PM -0400, bastard operater wrote:
> >>>>> "BOFH1234" == bastard operater <bofh1234 at hotmail.com> writes:
>
>     BOFH1234> Can samba connect to an NFS share and then re-export
>     BOFH1234> that share so my windows XP users can connect to it?
>     BOFH1234> Basically I have a NFS share that all of my windows XP
>     BOFH1234> users need read-only access to.  The goal of this
>     BOFH1234> project is to replace an old MS Gateway Services for
>     BOFH1234> Novell server (using IPX) with something that can do the
>     BOFH1234> same thing but over IP.  I am pretty sure Novell and AD
>     BOFH1234> can share files using Native File Access, but that would
>     BOFH1234> require the Novell admins to get CIFS setup on the
>     BOFH1234> Novell side.  The Novell server we are using has NFS
>     BOFH1234> already setup and getting that much setup was like
>     BOFH1234> pulling teeth.
>
>Samba can share any filesystem that the Samba server can see. Your
>performance will be degraded because you have the dual overhead of
>Samba and NFS, but you can share the filesystem.
>
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