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Mounting NetBIOS volumes on Solaris - possible solution
In our last dinner somebody mentioned that he wanted to mount Windows (NT, 95 or something like that) NetBIOS-based directories on various machines which are partly Linux and partly Solaris. I mentioned that Linux with kernel 2.0.x can mount NetBIOS volumes if Samba is installed and operational. We came into a possible solution in which we mount the directory on the linux using mount_smb and then share it as a NFS volume to the Solaris machines. However, this may create some extra network trafic and will be slower than a direct mount.
I happend to browse SunSite and found that the directory http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/smbfs/ contains at least two SMB->NFS protocol convertors. I don't know exactly what it means, but it might means that the convertor establishes a mini- NFS server on the local machine and uses it to serve the NetBIOS volumes. Since there is a Samba port for Solaris, then after converting the code to Solaris it could be a more efficient solution.
BTW, are there datagram (UDP like) Unix-domain sockets? If so, is it possible to use a datagram unix-domain socket for NFS?
Shlomi Fish
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