> From: Kyle McDonald [mailto:kmcdon...@egenera.com] > > But (and I could be wrong these days) in my experience, while the Samba > server is great, the SMB client on linux can only mount the share as a > single specific user, and all accesses to files in the share are > performed as that user. Right? > > That to me makes SMB a less desirable filesystem then NFS where you > can't really tell the difference between that and UFS or whatever.
Depends on the Linux distro. For example, I know in ubuntu, you're in your GUI file explorer, and you just click on "mount server" and specify the CIFS server. Then the fileserver is mounted via fuse, in your home dir, under a permission restricted subdir. So each user can mount any server as themselves, supporting all the normal stuff you'd like to support. Also, if desired, samba does support posix permissions. I don't know how, and I don't know any situation where I'd recommend it, but just to point out that's also possible. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
