[Samba] Reshare of a Samba mount

[Gaiseric Vandal]

Why is the netfiler isolated from the end users?  I am not very familiar
with it but presumably you could configure the netfiler to require user
access control in conjunction with either  Windows domain membership or an
LDAP backend?



-----Original Message-----
From: will ryder [mailto:wjryder at me.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 4:00 PM
To: gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com
Cc: Samba
Subject: Re: [Samba] Reshare of a Samba mount

I can use NFS, but then i come to the issue of file locking...

The performance hit at the moment is quite a big deal...

On Jun 8, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote:

> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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