On 7/22/06, Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
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> Nick Rout schrieb:
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> > I wasted days getting NFS to not work. I switched to CIFS. It is working
> very well.
>
> Is file locking working over CIFS? How about permissions
> and ownership? Working as well and easy as it does on NFS?
> What kind of problems did you have with NFS - I'm asking,
> as I can't think about anything easier than NFS on *nix.
>
> Alexander Skwar
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Alexander,
i would say that NFS is the easiest if all of your UID's are the same for
every user on the network, there is no reason that you would ever want mount
it from the outside, through a packet mangling NAT with your normal
permissions, and you have static IP's. that seems to be alot of conditions
to me. I personaly would love to NFS+ that had some form of public key auth
in it and encryption, yes i know you can do it with SSH tunnles, but still
doesn't fix the permissions problem

Andrew