[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS and openindiana

[Daniel Kjar]

Seems pretty straight forward to me now that I did it.  I like that its 
management is part of zfs and besides the little hiccup with that 
pam.conf mod and having to 're-enter ' your password it was all a pretty 
good experience.

Feels like a couple of little changes (include the missing package in 
the initial install, and include the pam.conf mod from the beginning) 
could make it a very easy way to share drives with windows.

Would you like to share your drives with windows? zfs set sharesmb=on 
/pool /it's that easy!

If people were interested they could delve deeper for filesystem stuff 
and abe etc but none of that would be necessary.




On 7/11/2013 10:08 AM, Laurent Blume wrote:
> On 10/07/13 15:04, James Carlson wrote:
>> I know that others here have said dreadful things about the CIFS server,
>> but I can't say I've understood the fuss.  :-/
>
> My experience with it for a very simple set up has been less than 
> stellar. But also, I was using it on S11, which has it still evolving, 
> and a good part of the issues (not all) were from that evolution and 
> the ever changing syntax.
>
> But seriously, even if it worked perfectly, how useful is it to spend 
> Illumos/OI resources on that? What does IPS do that Samba cannot? Is 
> it worth continuing it without the access that Oracle has to MS 
> documentation and their resources?
> Why not join forces with Samba and focus on enhancing that experience 
> rather than have a 3rd tool, less popular than Samba and less 
> supported than Solaris CIFS?
>
> Laurent
>
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