From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 00/11] cifs: implement multisession mounts (try #2) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:26:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20100424022649.GF15349@shareable.org> References: <1271794039-22787-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20100421141301.4ca93513@corrin.poochiereds.net> <20100422153948.GA6265@shareable.org> <20100422152536.5210822b@barsoom.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Layton , Stef Bon , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Steve French Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:43052 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754942Ab0DXC0w (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:26:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Steve French wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > > The solution I'm proposing will make a shared CIFS mount as easy to set > > up and deal with as it is with NFS. Which is to say, non-trivial but > > doable for the average sysadmin with a clue. > > Probably easier, since for the krb5 case ActiveDirectory kerberos > (Windows or Samba 4 KDC) with cifs is not too bad to setup. > > For the NTLMv2 case it is very easy to setup. Neither of those are as easy as setting up basic NFS - by a long way. But maybe easier than setting up kerberized NFS :-) -- Jamie