X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/02bfc320cc764ab2b8fdb63b48b6dc53013ea3e7..3882048f60f47ce7edb89cc3816978cff32551f9:/blog/data/2010-08-08-fs-sematics.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2010-08-08-fs-sematics.txt b/blog/data/2010-08-08-fs-sematics.txt index 0c1d4045f8..6b0ec56b46 100644 --- a/blog/data/2010-08-08-fs-sematics.txt +++ b/blog/data/2010-08-08-fs-sematics.txt @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ Tags: english, nuug, debian edu Date: 2010-08-08 21:20
A few years ago, I was involved in a project planning to use -Windows file servers as home directory servers for Skolelinux -machines. This was thought to be no problem, as the access would be -through the SMB network file system protocol, and we knew other sites -used SMB with unix and samba as the file server to mount home -directories without any problems. But, after months of struggling, we -had to conclude that our goal was impossible.
+Windows file servers as home directory servers for Debian +Edu/Skolelinux machines. This was thought to be no problem, as the +access would be through the SMB network file system protocol, and we +knew other sites used SMB with unix and samba as the file server to +mount home directories without any problems. But, after months of +struggling, we had to conclude that our goal was impossible.The reason is simply that while SMB can be used for home directories when the file server is Samba running on Unix, this only @@ -41,24 +41,24 @@ help you find your way out again. This is the fs-test.c source:
#define _GNU_SOURCE /* for asprintf() */ -#includeAnyway, here is a nice tool for your tool box, might you never need it. :)
+ +Update 2010-08-27: Michael Gebetsroither report that he found the +script so useful that he created a GIT repository and stored it in +http://github.com/gebi/fs-test.