[Samba] samba client (NetApp->Solaris mount)

[Dean Davis]

I've found that mounting Windows/CIFS shares using CIFS rather than
SMBFS to be more likely to result in a reboot in the event of an
unanticipated network disconnect.

For example, I currently mount a few CIFS/Windows 2003 shares into
several Linux/Solaris Samba boxes, but if the Windows box reboots or
loses connectivity, it becomes difficult to re-mount using CIFS into the
Linux/Solaris file-system, whereas with SMBFS, I'm usually able to
re-mount with minimal effort.

Perhaps it's attributed to the maturity of SMBFS. Not sure. I'd like to
stick with CIFS, but it just seems to be unpredictable. I'm debugging a
failed connection right now, and my only option to gracefully re-mount
the failed share, is to reboot my Linux boxes, which is a no-no in
UNIX/Linux land.

Thanks,


On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 06:59 -0400, James Peach wrote:
> On 7/14/05, Paul Gienger <pgienger at ae-solutions.com> wrote: 
> > > We want to make use of the samba client to securely mount FS on
> our Linux 
> > > and Unix Solaris computers from the central file server (NetApp). 
> > > 
> > > I am new to samba and trying to have some feel whether it is
> possible and 
> > > what kind of issues we can expect to face in this project. 
> >  
> > Linux will be able to mount your smb fileshares into the filesystem
> just 
> > fine, though you may want to stick to the mount -t cifs rather than
> mount -t 
> > smbfs.  Either way these kernel modules aren't maintained here, they
> are 
> > part of the kernel. 
> >  
> > That should lead to the rest of your UNIX network.  I can speak for
> Solaris 
> > and say that there is no support for mounting smb shares built in.
> AIX, 
> > HP-UX, VMS, IRIX, whatever else, I have no idea about, but they are
> probably 
> > in the same boat.
> 
> IIRC, sharity runs on most unixes and will gives you a local SMB
> filesystem.
> 
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