3 ms·

This is the easiest way to share something with a *nix machine. I use it for ISO storage in vSphere cluster, works fine. People use it for storing actual VMs,

This is the easiest way to share something with a *nix machine. I use it for ISO storage in vSphere cluster, works fine. People use it for storing actual VMs, but that requires a working AD/Krb integration between ESXi and AD which I don't use.

alophawen 4y ago
Eh, CIFS (SMB) has been in the kernel for years and would be the easiest way to share Windows <-> Linux.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
  In the kernel? I guess I never checked, but I was pretty sure all CIFS/SMB on Linux was userspace via FUSE and SAMBA. Still, have to agree it is the easiest way to file share between them.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    > The CIFS VFS was added to mainline Linux kernels in 2.5.42 For me both of them require arcane commands to use which I need to search each time I need them, but NFS is a bit less arcany for me.
    - alophawen 4y ago
      Its no more odd than a NFS share mount. fstab: //WIN_SHARE_IP/share_name /mnt/win_share cifs credentials=/etc/win-credentials,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755 0 0 where a NFS fstab mount is something like this: 10.10.0.10:/backups /var/backups nfs defaults 0 0
  - jra_samba 4y ago
    No cifsfs is maintained by Samba Team member Steve French (now at Microsoft) and is a kernel SMB1/2/3 redirector.