[OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

[James Relph]

> what about using winbind? Works with Netatalk and I guess it will also
> work with Solaris CIFS.
> 
> We haven't been able to get supplementary groups working, but I'm
> pretty sure that could be solved, possibly by installing an updated
> winbind from sources.

Hi Frank,

Winbind worked straight away with netatalk, and was tons more reliable/configurable (you can just give it a UID range to use).  The problem was getting the Solaris CIFS server to work with it, which didn't seem to be possible.

James.