[OpenIndiana-discuss] [!! SPAM] Re: Problem/Question on mount lofs:

[Armin Maier]

On 27.06.2012 07:28, Gordon Ross wrote:
>> AFAIK the Solaris kernel CIFS server, which is also used in OI,
>> does not allow sharing ZFS dataset hierarchies as a single
>> mountpoint (like you can do with NFS), and the CIFS clients
>> don't have a means to detect a nested mountpoint and call a
>> new mount operation for the nested datasets. I am not sure why,
>> maybe it is a protocol limitation, or a certain vendor's popular
>> client capability limitation.
> The native SMB service currently does not share recursively.
> (That was a design choice - an unpopular one - more below.)
> When you set sharesmb=... on some ZFS data set, none of
> the ZFS data sets that might exist below it are visible to SMB.
> Bug or feature?  You decide...
>
> We at Nexenta implemented an option to allow such "child"
> file systems under a share to be exposed by the share.
> Unfortunately, I don't think it ever got pushed up-stream
> to the illumos gate.  I guess you'd be in favor?
>
I do not understand the phrase :

When you set sharesmb=... on some ZFS data set, none of
the ZFS data sets that might exist below it are visible to SMB.
Bug or feature?  You decide...

I interpret it like if sharesmb= is set to off on every zfs filesystem 
the smb server should display filesystems which might exist below, but 
that is definiteley not so.
I also was looking for dfs support like Windows has build in, but smb 
server seams to not support that. Samba is no alternative for me since i 
am using windows conform ACL on the zfs filesystem and openindiana is 
joind to domain and uses the windows users and groups, i dont want to 
play around with winbind samba and permissions since the smb server of 
opensolaris works very simple and much easier than a samba configuration 
i think.