[ale] CIFS <-> NFS bridge?

[Ned Williams]

ok so dumb question time..why not install an NFS server to the windows box?

Ned


On 7/25/07, Dylan Northrup <docx at io.com> wrote:
>
> A long time ago, (25.07.07), in a galaxy far, far away, Ned Williams
> wrote:
>
> :=NFS v1/2 are not very complicated protocols, I am still curios why the
> nfs
> :=client hangs up when he tries to viiew the data on the mounted SMB share
> I
>
> This is apparently a feature, not a bug.  The rpc.nfsd is written with
> this
> restriction in place specifically, though looking at the spec I don't see
> anything that dicatates that behavior.  There have been versions where
> re-exportation was an option, but it does not look like it is an option
> for
> current versions, sadly for me.
>
> :=might be interested to see what is written to syslog during this time or
> :=perhaps an strace output of nfsd while the client is trying to
> access..If
> :=its a timeout issue then the fix is to simply increase the timeout
> values of
> :=either the nfsd/nfsclient. Also I might be curious to see what exports
> ran
> :=from a remote system against the NFS server reports, do the shares show
> up
> :=each time or intermittently.
>
> I have no issues getting to any other exported files or file
> systems.  Only
> when I attempt to access the re-exported file system (even if it's a
> sub-directory of an exported file system and I can access other files in
> that exported file system).
>
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