[Samba] Reshare of a Samba mount

[will ryder]

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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