[Samba] Use Samba as drop-in replacement for NFS

[Frood]

On 5/5/05, Matt R <aaron_milwaukee at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Frood <find.place at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/5/05, Matt R <aaron_milwaukee at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to use Samba as a drop-in
> > replacement
> > > > for NFS, namely,
> > > > allowing a system-wide anonymous mount which
> > > > authenticates access to
> > > > files based simply on the unix ids of the user
> > > > accessing the files and
> > > > the file permissions are equivalent to what is
> > > > present in the
> > > > underlying file system that is exported.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Frood
> > >
> > > Depending on your needs, possibly.  Remember that
> > smb
> > > filesystems don't support unix symlinks.  There
> > could
> > > be other changes.
> > >
> >
> > I just tried symlinks and they worked
> > (suprisingly!).  I'm interested
> > in finding out if I can have NFS-like mount
> > semantics, where there is
> > a systemwide mount that all users access, and access
> > control is
> > provided by unix file permissions, as opposed to SMB
> > share semantics,
> > where each user has to be authenticated before they
> > can mount a file
> > system.
> > > -Matt
> > >
> 
> As far as permissions, I'm not sure if its a windows
> server.  if it's a samba server, then yes, UNIX
> permissions rule.  As far as mounting smb, use
> mount_smbfs (options) $SERVER/SHARE
> $LOCAL_MOUTNT_POINT.  refer the man page for more
> detail.
> 
> It should be noted that (IIRC) that only Linux and Mac
> OS X can mount SMB shares.  Other UNIXes don't support
> this.
> 

I have Linux as both the client and server.  I can mount the samba
share on the client anonymously, and I see the Unix permissions too. 
However when I try to create a new file in a directory, I get an
ENOENT.  I can understand EPERM, but ENOENT doesn't make too much
sense.

> -Matt
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