symlink and samba

[Robert Meyer]

--- Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net> wrote:
> Thanks, that is an excellent point. Would the server only start hanging
> if the data in those directories were accessed or regardless? 

Typically, the server would only hang if something was 'cd'ed into the
directory and tried to do anything or something tried to access files in the
directory (share) and it was offline.  Trust me, there is nothing that is more
frustrating than to have processes that cannot be killed 'cuz they have I/O
pending on a missing share...

> 
> In any case perhaps a second, bigger drive for the server would be the
> best answer. I would like access the server from windoze and Linux. It
> would also free up space on the pc.

I would set up your server to be a file server and then store all of your music
there.  You could then tell the server to share the music dirs in both samba
and NFS so that you could get to it on your workstation in either O/S.

Cheers!

Bob
> 
> Although, I may try to get it working just for the sake of it all.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 08:40, Robert Meyer wrote:
> > Well, if you set up an NFS share, you should make sure that you leave the
> > source machine in Linux all the time that your web server is running unless
> you
> > unmount the drive before doing the windows thing.  If you NFS mount the
> drive,
> > you can make an alias in Apache for a directory that points to the music
> share
> > mount point.
> > 
> > The main problem that you're going to run into whether you use SMB or NFS
> is
> > that the source machine has to stay in whatever state it needs to be in to
> > maintain the drive connection or your server will get frightfully upset and
> > start hanging.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > Bob
> > --- Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net> wrote:
> > > Question: I am running a webserver using RedHat 8 and Apache connected
> > > to a local lan through a Belkin router. I have Netjuke setup and working
> > > fine. However, my music collection is on my personal pc (dual boot win
> > > me and redhat 9) and is too large to transfer to the smaller drive of my
> > > server. Is it possible to symlink to a Samba or nfs share? Any better
> > > suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance! 
> > > -- 
> > > Michael Brown <mwkbrown at alltel.net>
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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