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March 14th, 2017 06:00
How to use SMB/CIFS share as NFS mount at the Linux clients
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I have a CIFS share which is mounted to a Linux client as NFS mount point to my surprise.
Any insights to how this translation works at the client side. is this purely a client side configuration?
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Rainer_EMC
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March 14th, 2017 08:00
it could also have been mounted via CIFS on the Linux sytem -. mount output would show
Rainer_EMC
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March 14th, 2017 08:00
if it is indeed mounted via NFS then you must have exported it via NFS - that doesnt happen automatically
how users are mapped / permissions are mapped depends on your config like access policy, user mapping, ...
see the VNX CIFS, multi protocol, user mapping, ... manuals available from Support.emc.com for details
cadencep45
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March 15th, 2017 08:00
As Rainer says, if its mounted via CIFS it will be mounted via Samba ( the unix admin will be able to tell you). If its exported directly via NFS, then you can tell if you log on to GUI and check for NFS exports ( typically if this is done, the share has to be manually exported from cli as GUI gets confused ).
As to how permissions are mapped, I defer to Rainer as he has given a very comprehensive answer.
Rainer_EMC
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March 15th, 2017 14:00
showmount -e from the Linux client will also show what is NFS exported on the VNX