Dear Dianne,
>It turns out that samba mounts don't appear to have the same problem that nfs
>mounts do. I am able to samba mount a remote raid tower and then use spm to
>access files in that remote directory with no problem...other than the fact
>that now I have to get samba configured correctly ; )
>
The problem is that Samba disregards UNIX file attributes to help
Windows machines
in sharing files. If your LAN is secured at every machine (especially,
Windows machine)
or isolated from the internet, there is nothing to be concerned about. ;)
>I could not get the nfs mounts to work at all for spm on the redhat 9 (kernel
>2.4) system.
>
Still we are in love with NFS in using space on RAID NAS servers. Once
you set a user
to have the same UID (user ID) across all UNIX, Linux, and OS-X
machines, and set the
same mounted point name, e.g., '/home/raid_space_01' or use the 'ln -s
... ...' command
to make a symbolic link of the mounted point to be the same on every
machine, then you
can forget about that you have more space on the RAID servers and you
will feel like
that you are working on your own workstation all the time, even when you
are using
other workstations. :)
By default, the first UID is '500' on SuSE 8.2 Linux, '1000' on SuSE
9.2, and
'501' on OS-X. In exporting and mounting NFS, if you do not run DNS,
try to use an
IP address instead of a hostname. Moreover, do not forget to open the
Firewall for NFS.
By the way, if you have more than one user working on a project, do not
forget to set
GID (group ID) and group permission. Finally, for old files, even you
have the same
UID, the file owner needs to be updated!
Cheers,
Witaya Sungkarat
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