From: jon.johnston (jon.johnston_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 00:51:06 CEST
Message-ID: <450739DA.4060108@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:51:06 -0500 From: "jon.johnston" <jon.johnston@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Proper way to get support from Novell?
Mike Petersen wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 15:55 -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:52:51PM -0500, Mike Petersen wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 15:33 -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
>>>
>>>> out of curiosity, is this nfs server or client on SLES10?
>>>>
>>>> -- michael
>>>>
>>> Data corruption occurs between both server-server and server-desktop
>>> implementations. It is extremely annoying because you have to find a
>>> work-around without using NFS for Linux-Linux communication.
>>>
>>> Although, I have not tested other Distros as a client against a SLES10
>>> server yet (Maybe this weekend).
>>>
>>>
>> i understand, we are nfs centric here (we use network appliance nfs servers),
>> thus my concern about this. what is the primary os you use for nfs server? SLES10?
>>
>
> We have decided to go with Novell for all of our Servers (and
> subsequently Desktops). However, before the SLES10 upgrade, our SLES9
> servers seemed to work wonderfully as an NFS Servers, although we were
> using Fedora as the Desktop OS (except for 2 Gentoo Boxes).
>
> We are currently on hold for upgrading 3 of our labs to SLED10 because
> of this issue. For now we are hobbling along with the one lab we
> already upgraded to SLED10 by simply having the boxes autologin locally
> and using Samba shares for sharing files.
>
> Kind of off the subject, but do you know if Open Enterprise Server
> provides a better way to share files across Unix Machines that is NOT
> Samba or NFS ?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Petersen
> mgpeter@pcc-services.com
Share files across Unix machines...... iFolder, NetStorage, but these
aren't your traditional share a drive type sharing. Have you looked at
these? They're typically more used by remote users, but they do allow
for files to be accessed from anywhere through Webdav.
Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM, Microsoft, Novell/Suse and Sophos Consulting
952-544-1108
http://www.cbsol.com
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