ubuntu xp vmware cluster f...er...filesharing

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10/10/06, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
>
> Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> >
> > I don't know what problems are you really experiencing, cause I have
> > used VMware shared folders and SAMBA in the past with no problems.
> > Maybe if you go into more detail, we can help.
> >
>
> okay, here it is in shorter form:
>
> problem as I need to store all of my project files on XP because that's
> where I back up from.  I need to make these project files accessible
> from multiple virtual machines.  This means I need some form of file
> sharing between XP and my virtual machines.  But this filesharing must
> preserve user ID and permissions because the Python distribution
> utilities use that information when installing modules.
>
>
> VMware shared folders do not preserve user ID and permissions of the
> file.  They instead let anybody write and on read substitute
> 700/root:root but still let anybody read.


What version of VMware are you using? Workstation, Server, GSX, ESX?

This royally screws up Python modules stored on and installed from the
> shared folders. see below:
>
> -rwx------ 1 root root 9077 2006-09-18 17:35
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/file_queue.py
>
> This module isn't usable by anybody except by root.  Not useful.
>
>
> smb mount is easy. it can't find my XP share.  I have two different
> networks a private one and a public one.  The private one works fine for
> everything else.  I turned off the XP firewall and nothing changed.
>
> The file navigator however can find the share more frequently.
>
> But even if I do make smb mounts work, I have zero confidence it will
> preserve ownership and permissions correctly.  I would love to be proven
> wrong.
>
> m# mount -t smbfs  -o username=esj,password=xxxx //first-triad/vm_shared
>   /mnt/projects
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> //first-triad/vm_shared,
>         missing codepage or other error
>         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>         dmesg | tail  or so
>
> from dmsg
>
> [17266329.376000] smbfs: mount_data version 1919251317 is not supported
>
>
> At the end of the day, all I care is the ability to store files on XP so
> I can back them up, access them from multiple virtual machines running
> ubuntu and have the ubuntu permissions and ownership preserved in that
> common file store.  And to do so without costing myself hours of
> fiddling because it would be faster to modify the Python distutils
> environment to set permissions properly on its own.
>
> ---eric
>
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