Samba not listing a network share

[brazilian_joe]

Hi all,

I am patching up an interim solution while we dont get a vpn server.

I have set up a vpn connection with a remote server, and used smbmount to mount a remote share in my machine:

/etc/fstab:

[adaptr]

Since you mount it locally as user tfreire and then share it out again to other usernames, how would you expect to gain access ?
You have to explicitly set the userid to the user you mounted it as to get full access on the local system (and, as a corollary, any systems connected to that).

Much easier solution would be to set up a restricted NFS tunnel between the two servers and SMB share that.
But the delays will still be horrible, since you're not just using VPN (which is sloow) but also re-sharing something via samba.
Windows clients do local directory caching, but the samba server does not AFAIK.
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[brazilian_joe]

One problem is that I do not have administrator privileges on the other endpoint. I know this is a patch.
But when I list the directory contents (ls -l /mnt/smb) it goes rather fast.
The problem is that acessing it using samba is horribly slow.