On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:45:02PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi
On 21/11/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
My Network Drive is a Samba server which, among other things, does not support "unix extensions". I have to disable the unix extensions for the drive to be mountable at all by doing:-
echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabledI was just wondering, can you put NFS on the samba server and then do a normal rsync/etc. ? I know you said the machine is an old thing with cut down Linux and old samba. I read recently there was a buffer overflow vulnerability on samba, and so what would be your plans for security updates for this server? If you were going to do a security update, you might be inclined to think about putting on NFS on there and have 'proper' *nix file support anyway.
It's not old in the sense that it's an old Linux box (of mine) running as a server. It's a brand new box which is a NAS system that happens to run a cut down Linux and Samba to provide network file storage. So it's not accessible in any way to change its setup.
The command above is what I have to do at the *client* end so that the CIFS mount works given the limitations of the NAS.