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

[Harry Putnam]

"Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" <openindiana at nedharvey.com> writes:

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Harry wrote:
>> 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.

Edward replied:
> 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.

Once I get hooked up I will remember to bump you for them... thanks
for the offer.

>> 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.

OK, good to hear.  I thought that was probably the case but thinking
is a far cry from knowing... thanks.