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

[Robbie Crash]

I guess I'm just lucky, I haven't had any of the problems you folks have.


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) <
openindiana at nedharvey.com> wrote:

> > From: Robbie Crash [mailto:sardonic.smiles at gmail.com]
> >
> > 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?
>
> I wasted ages, following oracle documentation, configuring sharesmb,
> getting crap for results.  Adding a little more info - One of the
> applications I support is Acronis TrueImage.  A ghost-like whole-system
> backup software you run inside windows.  When using sharesmb, I was able to
> access the server just fine to create backups, but that's only half the
> requirement.  You need to also be able to boot from the rescue media, which
> is a dos-like environment, and then *read* the backup.  For this, sharesmb
> was simply failing.  Not making the server visible on the network.  If you
> don't care about that, there's a good chance your sharesmb experience would
> be better than mine.
>
>
> > Is it just that people want to use smb.conf instead of
> > managing shares through zfs set sharesmb?
>
> That wasn't a goal, but it turned out to be a positive side-effect.
>
> I found, if I were to manage permissions via solaris ACL's, the
> implementation is completely different from anything else - so I would have
> to learn yet another platform specific idiosyncrasy.  Which I would be
> willing to do, but don't have any specific desire to do.  When I finally
> gave up and went for samba, I was happy that I didn't need to learn
> anything.
>
> I seem to recall, there is a simple option to turn off ACL's and use posix
> permissions instead.  Which is significantly simpler, if you don't need ACL
> granularity.
>
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