From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 23:59:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crydee.sai.msu.ru (crydee.sai.msu.ru [195.208.220.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F69151BC for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 23:59:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (asv1@localhost) by crydee.sai.msu.ru (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA15718; Tue, 4 May 1999 10:00:29 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from asv1@crydee.sai.msu.ru) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 10:00:27 +0400 (MSD) From: "Sergey Ayukov (mailing lists)" To: Robert Clark Cc: Doug White , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFSD limitations? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 May 1999, Robert Clark wrote: > If you have to worry about drive letters, is the client running DOS? (Or > something DOS derived?) Yes, DOS clients and OS/2, my workplace. DOS-derived, you are right :-) > If so, the samba may be a good fit for you. I believe it will allow all of > the things you've asked about. I use Samba for exporting to Windoze machines, and it does not have those limitations and in general works fine. But I can't use it for DOS machines with PC/NFS, and too lazy at the moment to try SMB-capable OS/2 component. > > > > 2) NFS mount does not seem to go through local filesystems. E.g., I have > > > > another disk mounted on /vol1/ftp/.1 and want export of /vol1/ftp to > > > > transparently "bleed" through to /vol1/ftp/.1 ? > > > > > > NFS mounts do not cross mountpoints. You'll have to mount that yourself. > > > > Pity. That results in two additional drive letters :-( Ugly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sergey Ayukov Sternberg Astronomical Institute http://www.ayukov.com Moscow, Russia http://crydee.sai.msu.ru/index-asv.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message