Linux provides a SMB fs type and we are trying to mount a netapp CIFS share on a linux box, but with no luck. We are using unix authentication on the filer from a NIS map. We have no Windows or NT authentication set up at all. Windows and NT attach to CIFS shares on the filer just fine, using cleartext passwords. And they also attach to a linux samba server just fine, with unix authentication and cleartext passwords.

But we can't get linux to mount a smb fs from the netapp.

We would like to do this because we expect a large number of users to run linux on their desktops and we would love to not have to manage the exporting nightmare that NFS would require -- especially when most folks will be getting IP addresses via DHCP. It would be much more convenient (for us sysadmins) for linux users to just mount their home dir as a smb fs type, and they authenticate with their unix password.

Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 804-924-0640

University of Virginia ITC Unix Support