On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 08:22:02PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is actually the problem at issue in an SMBFS implementation, > and for which the Linux guys punted: the credential in SMB is > per connection, not per user.
Per connection creds suck performance wise (=I haven't seen an implementation which didn't). But, oh well.. > There is some newer stuff in LANMan to deal with this inter-NT, > and SAMBA incorporates this, but session ID's are not supported > over a single VC by all LANMan servers. > > NetWare has the same problem, FWIW, as does NUC (a client FS for > NetWare). At the risk of being flamed to death, you could use krb5 for that purpose.. Perhaps time to revive AFS? Seems that some of the issues here were solved in Transarc's/IBM's AFS that I used a while back (ok, it was a pain to run sometimes, but there's nothing per se that says you couldn't unbreak those things -- it's an implementation and availability of tools issue more than anything). Cheerios, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz, Sr. Network Architect BellSouth Corporation <[email protected]> -wk, <[email protected]> -hm Advanced Data Services "Affiliation given for identification, not representation." Atlanta, GA, U.S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
