Because 90%+ of the users and services for that data are on Windows. On May 19, 2014 6:07 PM, "John Stoffel" <j...@stoffel.org> wrote:
> > Atom> If I could get autofs/automount to work with CIFS that may be an > Atom> option. However it looks like credential passing could be an > Atom> issue; I'll have to look into that. > > Atom> My concern is that, from reading the technet documents, Win2k8 > Atom> had pretty bad support for NFS and 2012 claims to have pretty > Atom> good support. I don't know that I trust Microsoft to go from bad > Atom> to good in one release, so I'd like to hear some personal > Atom> stories about using Win2k12 as an NFS server. > > Atom> We currently have a fairly old NetApp (4+ years) and want to > Atom> replace it with a SAN (maybe Nimble). We need to publish home > Atom> drives and department shares for a couple dozen Linux users on > Atom> both their workstations and and about a dozen or so shared > Atom> servers; and a 10-node HPC cluster but not as the > Atom> primary/performance storage. One server should be able to handle > Atom> the load. (If it was a Linux server, and Windows can't be /that/ > Atom> much worse.) > > So why do you think Windows is the solution here? You said earlier on > that the MS Windows Admins manage the shares, but are there really > *that* many shares and do they change all that often? And why can't > the manage a simple NFS appliance or Linux server mounting the block > storage and then sharing out disk space? Throw on webmin and half the > battle is won... > > I really think you're trying to fit a round peg into a square hole here. >
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