In message 01BE6AF9.7FE779F0.willh@infi.net, Will Harper writes:

I can't answer your question directly, but I have "heard" that CIFS is a problem. It works ok, when it is working, but when it hiccups, it is not easily corrected. When a CIFS connection is broken, it stays broken.

A vendor's engineer (Auspex) told me that he had found that an NFS client on NT actually provided better end results for all of the H-A storage systems that he had worked with. He suggested Samba or Hummingbird. NFS, he explained, keeps trying to reconnect until you fix the problem, and then NFS fixes itself.

Will Harper, MCSE

Auspex told us the same... right before they mentioned that CIFS wasn't supported for partitions under ClusterGuard(tm) -- their shared disk failover option.

Not that I disagree... I really like the the statelessness (not sure if that's a word) of NFS. Any truth to the legend that NFS kept state, but was changed because the stability of the servers was questionable?

jason