Netatalk is an open source implementation of AFP (Apple Filing Protocol). Presently Apple OS X starting with version 10.9 (about a year ago) prefers SMB over AFP for file sharing. It still prefers AFP over SMB for remote Time Machine Backups as there are some features Time Machine needs that aren't available yet in SMB.

> But what I really need is > > a way to link the NFS "data" and SMB "Data" or to rsync them. They are > > different computers on the same wired ethernet LAN. > > > > What is the best way to accomplish that? > > > > Bob > > You can start the search here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization or simply use '[s]cp' man 1 [s]cp BTW have you tried Netatalk http://netatalk.sourceforge.net $ repoquery -i netatalk

Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <bobgoodwin(a)wildblue.net&gt; said: > BSD was not the problem with Freenas, it worked fine until I thought > I would change a directory name with the Thunar file manager, things > quite working, I changed the name back, no help! I had offended it > somehow. It seems everything done to configuration has to be done > with the GUI provided and that has it's peculiarities. I'm sure the > developers can manipulate things from the command line but I > couldn't. We have a TrueNAS (commercial version of FreeNAS) at work, and it looks like there's really no actual CLI. We had significant problems with NFS (used it for storing email in Maildir format), and we worked with the developers on tracking it down. Watching them work, they did stuff by hand and/or went into Python (or even SQLite directly) to make changes. There did not appear to be any CLI-type tools to manage it.

BSD was not the problem with Freenas, it worked fine until I thought I would change a directory name with the Thunar file manager, things quite working, I changed the name back, no help! I had offended it somehow. It seems everything done to configuration has to be done with the GUI provided and that has it's peculiarities. I'm sure the developers can manipulate things from the command line but I couldn't.

ClearOS can be deployed on e.g. Amazon EC2, sure http://www.clearcenter.com/support/documentation/clearos_install_guide/am... but this is only one possible purpose. You might prefer to compare it with FreeNAS, only ClearOS is Linux in the heart, not BSD.

> > Is there a way to have both NFS and Samba in the same server? I > suspect it's not practical but need to ask anyway. > > Bob > Sure you can have Samba and NFS on the same server. Why would you not be able too? The only gotcha is, if you are using SELinux, there is a boolean that has to be set in order to have the same thing exported with both NFS and Samba. - Derrik

I'm kinda coming into this discussion late. SMB is pretty universal, so if you want to simplify you can just serve over SMB. Windows, OS X, iOS, and Linux clients can all use it. For iOS I'm finding "FileExplorer Free" By Steven Zhang. There are some drawbacks using both SMB and NFS on the same directory: there are different file name limitations, so it's possible to be allowed to name a file via SMB, and then not access or delete the file on NFS; and vice versa. And I think xattr aren't possible with NFS. "the data" can be at <pathtodata> which would be a mount point for the brick it's stored on; and then # mount -B <pathtodata> <smbshare> # mount -B <pathtodata> <nfsshare> So you get different directories configured for SMB vs NFS sharing, but due to the bind mount the underlying storage is the same. Netatalk is an open source implementation of AFP (Apple Filing Protocol). Presently Apple OS X starting with version 10.9 (about a year ago) prefers SMB over AFP for file sharing. It still prefers AFP over SMB for remote Time Machine Backups as there are some features Time Machine needs that aren't available yet in SMB. WebDAV sounds like it's viable also, having the benefit of better performance externally (shares over the internet). I get a bunch of file size limitation results with Google, but all seem to be Windows (as host) limitations, not something inherent to WebDAV. There's also some speculation that internal sharing via WedDAV doesn't perform as well. But WebDAV's advantage is that it doesn't have ancient versions, all of which SMB is expected to fall back on. I've found Samba to be quite a bit more difficult to setup than either Netatalk or NFS. I haven't done a WebDAV setup yet but it sounds interesting. What I'd want to know is if remote modification is OK, rather than transfer locally, modify, transfer back to remote - that's a PITA workflow I think. Implies file locking is necessary.

On 11/20/14 14:21, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > I took a break and later realized that I already had a copy of the > data in /nfs4exports/data! So instead of taking it from the other NFS > server I simply rsync'd it to /DATAsmb/Data/. That's running now and > will take some time since it's large. However that's not the ideal > solution either since now I have a second copy of the large file on > the Raid1 server ... Now I have another problem I can't handle: /dev/sdb1 699G 116G 583G 17% /home /dev/sda1 494M 171M 323M 35% /boot //localhost/myshare 50G 50G 4.9M 100% /DATA myshare.DATA is full and the rsync is stalled. I don't know how to reset the size, actually I would prefer that it have access to all available space. I really don't want the drives whacked up into separate systems. I may yum remove samba and start over now that I see some of the problems? I see netatalk ight be a better way to deal with the Apple devices? But I know they all work with samba. I guess I need to read and think some more about this, I'm already in over my head. Bob

Chapter 14. Samba https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/... https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...

Did you consider ClearOS Community - reminiscent of "CentOS" with nice WebUI;) http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives ClearOS Live Demo http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/live-demo.html