[OpenIndiana-discuss] ActiveDirectory UID mapping (netatalk)

[Günther Alka]

with SAMBA and winbind you may loose:

- snaps via Windows previous version
- Windows compatible ntfs4 ACL (only Posix ACL ?)
- SMB as a ZFS property
- interoperability with NFS4
- movable pools that keep ACL intact
- performance, kernel based CIFS server is mostly faster
- CIFS is managed by Illumos, not a third party product that cares mostly about Linux
- napp-it integration

From Windows and interoperability view CIFS is much better.
A minimal solution may be using at least the UID/GID provided by idmap for 
already created AD users, optionally add a SID->UID/GID entry in this database.

In this case, you do not write proper ACL but use at least the same UID/GID like CIFS
I have not tried if CIFS is using the proper SID via idmap when there is only a UID/GID entry in files.




Am 13.08.2012 um 12:24 schrieb James Relph:

>> I would say, OpenIndiana/ Solaris  (as a fileserver) is useless without its Windows compatible
>> Snap, ACL and CIFS features. These are the killer arguments to use OI/ Solaris widely - the most compatible
>> Windows-server on Unix.
> 
> I think the only thing you're missing moving to SAMBA+winbindd is the VSS integration?  The snapshots are still there and all the other ZFS features, you just lose the right-click - restore previous versions option (which most enterprises seem to disable for clients anyway).
> 
> James.
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