Re: smbmount /usr possible?
I'm not sure about the package management issue but I would definely use
NFS in this case isntead of samba. SMB is missing some important
filesystem features, such as permission bits and file ownership that you
generally really want to have on /usr.
Nate
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Gunnar Strand wrote:
> Greetings fellow debian users,
>
> I've recently gotten myself a little local network and have decided
> to run my old 486 as server for exporting its large HD by using samba.
> My new PC (the client) has both Linux and Win95 bootable + the old
> 1GB HD. Now, I want to minimize the Linux partition on my client and
> smbmount the /usr directory from my server. The target is to share
> every little file that is sharable to maximize the usage of the HD.
>
> The best would be (I suppose) to have the same /usr mounted on both
> hosts. However, debian seems to use /usr to store vital installation
> information which will cause conflicts if I manage to smbmount that
> directory.
>
> So, is it possible to only use dselect on my server to install programs
> I want to share between the hosts. And is it possible to share the
> entire /usr directory?
>
> Regards,
>
> /Gunnar
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