Sharing portage directory via samba

padukes · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 232

Hi,

I'm trying to share my portage directory via samba so that I only have to "emerge sync" one machine on my network and then all machines can read from it for ebuilds and they can also write to it when they download distfiles. I assume this makes sense and is somewhat typical.

I've created the share on the main machine with this in my smb.conf:

padukes · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 232

If it's any help I found this in the log:

hayu · n00b Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 5

Not sure if you did the following.

padukes · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 232

Awesome! Thanks - that worked. However, I get this error:

trjones4 · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:12 pm Post subject:

I've recently finished setting up a mixed Gentoo and Windoze network. We use Samba as a domain controller and NFS to share filesystems between the Gentoo boxes. I believe using NFS between linux boxes improves the transfer speed over a Samba connection ... Of course, before any of this will work make sure you have NFS Client and Server support enabled in your kernel ...

NFS is pretty straightforward to configure. For example, if I want to share a directory on one machine with the other (hellfire) i first (on each machine) ...

hayu · n00b Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 5

padukes · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 232

Thanks!

padukes · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 232

Hey - so I've been having weird errors with portage since I've been sharing it over samba, and so I am going to try to NFS. I was wondering what are the appropriate permissions to set on the /usr/portage directory (and files) as well for the NFS share.

trjones4's suggestions appear to be specific users on his machine - I was expecting that it'd have to be root or portage or something.

Thanks,
P

trjones4 · Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject: NFS sharing of /usr/portage

I haven't tried sharing /usr/portage so I'm not much for specific help in that area

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But, you don't have to use the options like all_squash which I used in the example .. I'm using them currently so I just copied the file :-)

Anyway, as long as the same userid and groupid exist on the sever and client (with synched passwords), then the share should function as expected for that user. For the case of /usr/portage, maybe you can just make sure the uid and gid for root are the same and then use the same password on each machine?
Good luck ..

Hey, eventually all this sharing /usr/portage stuff will be moot when we can all run OpenMosix kernels with LTSP

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padukes · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 232

Hey,

So thanks for your help so far. I've installed nfs-utils on the server and the client. And started the service on both machine. But it seems like overkill to have another server running on the client (even though it's not exporting anything) - is there anyway to only run the client stuff on the client machine?

Also, I'm using the no_root_squash option so that the client has all root privileges (read/write/etc) on the server's directory - Can you think of any reason not to do this?

Thanks again.

P

padukes · Apprentice Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 232

I'm re-posting this because it's gotten so far off topic ;-)

trjones4 · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 4:40 pm Post subject:

As for NFS client and server running on each machine, you could disable client support in the server kernel config and disable server support in the client machine's kernel config. You might save some overhead that way, but really when I do a top as root my nfsd processes are all near the bottom (with most of the samba daemons above using more memory).