[plug] KDE / DCOP vs SMBFS home path.....? (long post, adv. topic)

[Ben New]

OK, thanks everyone for your replies. Basically Samba, being based on 
Windows SMB, doesn't support POSIX filesystems and is therefore pretty 
much useless, except for sharing with Windows machines. lol...

I've decided to run both NFS and Samba, to enable sharing with both 
types of client OS, and have been trying to get NFS to work and having 
problems there too, but will post that with a different subject.

BTW, all the server's filesystems are ext3. I've had no end of problems 
with NTFS so don't even consider it anymore.

Ben



Craig Ringer wrote:

>> But, Windows != POSIX. Windows filesystems just don't provide everything
>> that POSIX expects, and filesystems for POSIX operating systems usually
>> don't provide everything that Windows expects. These problems can arise
>> from things that UNIX and Windows users believe to be incredibly plain
>> and ordinary (such as file ownership and locks), not limited to
>> ostensibly special problems like UNIX-domain sockets.
>
>
> An excellent example is your .ssh/authorized_keys, .ssh/id_rsa{,.pub} 
> . You WANT your .ssh/authorized_keys to be world-readable so that sshd 
> can authenticate with it. However, you ABSOLUTELY do not want your 
> .ssh/id_rsa world readable, or your public key is fair game to anybody 
> with a decent password cracker and some computing power. You /do/ have 
> an SSH key password, right?!?
>
> These things cannot both be accomplished at the same time using a home 
> directory that does not support POSIX permissions.
>
> POSIX is quite a bit (!!) older than NT, so why MS doesn't at least 
> support storing POSIX permssions and mapping them to NT ACLs is beyond 
> me. Especially given that NT also supports named pipes etc, but 
> apparently a "special" verion. Hell, NTFS supports _macintosh_ file 
> information in a separate "Stream" and I'm pretty sure it supports 
> POSIX file attributes - just not over SMB for some reason. *sigh*.
>
> Craig Ringer
>
>
>

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