[OpenIndiana-discuss] Using OI and zfs from a windows machine

[Robbie Crash]

>
>
> Technically supported.  I personally wouldn't trust ... and your complaint
> adds validation to my superstition.
>
> I personally configure samba to not join any windows domain.  Just have
> local user accounts inside the samba box.  Manage all the perms with
> chown/chmod.  Keep it simple and well within the beaten path.


I always see this bandied about. Following the Oracle documentation on how
to join OI to a domain for the built in CIFS serving has worked for me,
flawlessly on 10 different OI installations.

Every time I hear about people with issues with it, they're always using
Samba. What benefit does using an additional module have over the built in
CIFS server? Is it just that people want to use smb.conf instead of
managing shares through zfs set sharesmb? The ACLs for ZFS shares give me
as granular permissions as I get on Windows, and there's no mucking about
with manual permissions changes on the OI side after they've been set
initially; changing the permissions from Windows works as it would on a
native Windows share.


>
> > Working from windows across a gigabit network on a zfs server.  Didn't
> > seem to work well... I'm talking about running adobe tools on files
> > from windows when the files are on a zfs server across the network.
> >
> > The problems I remember best were sloth and freezups on the windows
> > machine.
> >
> > So, all I really want to know right now is if that should be entirely
> > possible .. and if there are users here who do that daily that can
> > vouch for it.
>
> I do it regularly.  The trick is configuring samba.  I found the built-in
> cifs server to be crap, and switched to the actual samba service.  The
> reason it's tricky to configure is cuz ... OI doesn't come with any sample
> config files, and try as I might, I simply can't get SWAT to run on OI.  So
> I created a linux machine, ran swat on the linux machine, and then copied
> over the smb.conf file and destroyed linux.
>
> I'll happily provide my documentation, on how I configured my server, if
> desired.
>
>
> > Or maybe gigabit just isn't a big enough pipe for heavy graphics work?
>
> With a 1Gbit link, you should get performance very comparable to a single
> locally attached disk.
>
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