[OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

[Frank Lahm]

2012/9/5 James Relph <james at themacplace.co.uk>:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

really? Can you elaborate? The thing is, I'm in the process of
compiling and updated winbind from latest Samba sources (and
documenting that process) in order to test with that if the problems
with supplementary groups go away and if it works with Solaris CIFS.

Thanks!
-f