[plug] Network filesystem recommendations?

[Ben New]

Simon,

I'm no real expert but I had this same issue a while ago...

As I recently found out, samba is no good for sharing the home partition 
because it doesn't support all the options of unixish filesystems, i.e. 
special files, file permissions, etc etc.  The home path is used to 
store things like pipes which means it just doesn't work if you try to 
mount /home/user with smbfs (believe me, I tried ;-))

Since I implemented exactly what you're talking about with NFS, I've had 
zero problems.  Just add an entry in /etc/exports for each person's home 
path and keep the passwords in synch on all the boxes (unless you use a 
remote login as well of course).

Regards,
Ben



Simon Scott wrote:

>Hi all
>
>Im about to drop an 80gig drive into my development box, and I want to move my
>desktop /home filesystem onto it and export it for all my boxen.
>
>Obviously since SMB/CIFS has trubs, and NFS is a little shaky, what would
>people recommend?
>
>Im also going to play with LVM etc, any gotchyas I should keep an eye out
>for?
>
>Muchos Gracias
>
>  
>