[Gllug] Combining SMB and NFS - was Embedded Linux & 1Gbps?

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Tom Weissmann wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it doesn't have to be necessary. Automounting CDs works 
> without the user needing to be root, so why shouldn't automounting samba 
> shares?

To automount the share you'd potentially have to supply auth details for
every protected share on your network, which doesn't necessarily seem wise.

I'm sure there are schemes for automounting samba shares, but I've not
seen one and I'd ban it from a company network.

> because only some applications can actually use the "file systems" they 
> create. Seems like a great way to break the *nix philosophy that 
> everything is a file - "everything is a file, sometimes".

and this is being addressed, at least in gnome's vfs, the new version of
which can mount things with FUSE, which makes life considerably easier
for users.

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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