[OpenIndiana-discuss] Access to ZFS viz CIFS from windows regularly hangs.

[John McEntee]

I have an update on my running CIFS and windows saga.

Getting samba installed and joined to the domain is a challenge and a half,
and is still not authenticating (trying on a test server).

What I have done is stop using a dns alias to connect to the OpenIndiana
server. So whereas before I was using the servers real name to connect to a
H: drive (for my documents etc) and a dns alias (CNAME) to connect the
company wide file share S: Drive. (the intention I could fail over to a
different and just update dns). I had noticed that it was mainly the S:
drive not responding while the H: Drive would continue to work (but not
always). I changed my login scripts to use the OpenIndiana servers real name
for the S drive as well, and have had not reported problems since. I did
this change just over a week ago.

Should OpenIndiana support a dns alias like this? It requires a registry
change on a windows server to work, but I believe the registry change just
effect that windows server, and is required for it to work at all.

Regards

John


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