[Samba] Reshare of a Samba mount

[Gaiseric Vandal]

No-  in my solution-  A connects to B, and B tells A to go to C.

In your case, you would need to keep having B resharing C to A and 
accept there will be a performance hit.     You would, however, want to 
make sure that any other bottlenecks between B and C are minimized-   
make sure you are using gigabit switched ethernet  connections.

Does the NetFiler have the option to share the files via NFS?  I wonder 
if that would improve the throughput between B and C.


On 06/08/2011 02:55 PM, will ryder wrote:
> Here is my network diagram:
>
> [A]<----->  [B]<------->[C]
>
> A is Window's machine
> B is RHEL
> C is NetApp
>
> B can be thought of sitting in a DMZ, so it can see A and C.
> A and C can not talk to each other.
>
> Would the solution below work ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Will
>
>
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:
>
>> I don't think you have to define a DFS root.
>>
>> On the unix level you can create a symbolic link
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> server1# cd /export/data1
>> server1# ln -s  msdfs:server2\sata2 data2
>>
>> Assuming that server:/export/data1 is shared in samba as \\server1\data1
>>
>> the link is meaningless for  unix user but if a widnowsyou connect to \\server1\data1, and click on data2, you will be actually be redirected to \\server2\data2 share-  server1 does not actually reshare anything.
>>
>>
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>>
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>> On 06/08/2011 10:48 AM, will ryder wrote:
>>> Having a little bit of trouble understanding how my configuration might work.
>>>
>>> Having seen this :
>>>
>>> http://communities.netapp.com/thread/3616
>>>
>>> Does this mean that the  DFS root is on the RHEL and NetApp is a leaf node ?
>>>
>>> Would anyone have a sample configuration for what i would like to do or could suggest one?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Will
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:39 PM, Chris Weiss wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM, will ryder<wjryder at me.com>   wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running a samba server that has two shares:
>>>>>         i) Local directory
>>>>>         ii) samba mount on  NetApp Filer.
>>>>>
>>>>> The samba server is running on RHEL 5.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a large transfer speed difference between the local directory and samba mount.
>>>>> I have run some tests and determined this is due to RHEL5 reshare of the samba.
>>>>> Does anyone have suggestions so that I can make this faster ?
>>>> use a DFS link so that clients access the netapp cifs directly.
>>>> re-sharing is always going to cause some sort of problems, performance
>>>> is usually the least of them.
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