Re: [K12OSN] NFS and Samba questions

[Julius Szelagiewicz <julius turtle com>]

Quentin,
	DFS is rather lame, NFS is a nightmare in multiserver environment,
especialy with WAN links involved and Samba is nothing to write home
about. All 3 don't really work well in encrypted mode. If you really need
a distributed file system look at AFS. Andrew File System from
Crnegie-Mellon U. was designed to be a secure distributed fs. the setup of
kerberized version can be a bitch, but I've met people that swear by it
and the results were spectacular. I am planning a setup for late fall.
good luck, julius

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Quentin Hartman wrote:

> Greetings-
> 	I am thinking about using multiple NFS servers, with filesystems mounted
> on one central Samba / NFS server ( effectively making the setup similar to
> Microsoft's DFS for NT) so that all my staff and students can access their
> work from both the Linux terminals I have going (great work guys!) and the
> Win 9x workstations throughout the District. My biggest concern is the
> performance of the Samba machine. How beefy of a machine am I going to need
> to act as the "hub" for this layout? I expect to have no more than 300
> simultaneous requests to it, and that is fine, that hardware shouldn't have
> a problem with that, but how does adding NFS to the mix impact things? I
> have not used NFS before and not found anything online that seems to refer
> to using NFS and Samba together this way to achieve a multi-platform
> approximation of DFS. Any thoughts?
>
> -Regards-
>
> -Quentin Hartman-
>
>
>
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