[Samba] Mount CiFS as root on Linux

[Jerome Warnier]

Le dimanche 20 août 2006 à 15:56 +0200, Michael Gasch a écrit :
> hi,
> 
> but what about pipes KDE for example is creating during session startup?
> had this problem with home directories mounted with cifs, where KDE did 
> not start successfully. didn't verify this with recent versions.
That's already working.
Using option "serverino" solved our last problems.

Samba implements already the "Unix extensions to SMB/CIFS", which allows
this (storing Unix-style pipes, sockets, ...).

> micha
> 
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:04 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> >> Could it be possible nowadays (understand: with the newest kernels and
> >> tools) to mount the root filesystem of a Linux client over CiFS? Just
> >> like what is already possible for a long time with NFS.
> >> The server would be Samba, not Windows.
> > 
> > The best way to figure that out would be to try it.  With a recent
> > kernel and Samba, it seems an entirely reasonable idea to me.
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> > 
> > 
> 
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