[OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS Alias issue for CIFS - network path not found on Win7

[Sebastian Gabler]

Hi Edward,

actually, I wanted to stick with the kernel CIFS server because I thought that AD integration would be easier compared with SAMBA3.
Is there a good how-to and maybe even some comparison between the two smb servers so that I can estimate which one will be easier?

All clients should be able to use IP and DNS instead of NetBios here. (XP SP3 and up, some OXs, some Debian-based linuxes)
I want to keep the SMB2 feature on the Windows 6.x based machines because we have other servers here that can serve smb2.

Primarily I was actually interested if there is any chance to work around the bug noted by Oracle in the CIFS server, and/or backport the fix to the
current Illumos code base/ my OI installation to profit from the fix w/o migrating to a different distro.

Best,

Sebastian

>> From: Sebastian Gabler [mailto:sequoiamobil at gmx.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 6:03 AM
>>
>> The solution offered by Oracle is a
>> workaround that was implemented in Oracle's own branch.
>> Is that workaround also available in any OI or any other community-based
>> Solaris distro?

>I have not been satisfied with the features or reliability of the kernel cifs server.  I've made a habit of disabling it, and installing samba instead.

>I forget which is which, but look at the following services:
>svc:/network/smb/server:default
>svc:/network/samba:default
>svc:/system/idmap:default
>svc:/network/smb/client:default

>Unfortunately, there is no default smb.conf, so I recommend getting one from a
>linux system (or using swat, which again unfortunately won't run on solaris, so do it on linux).  And also unfortunately, by default, I believe nmbd isn't included in the service, so google around a little bit.
>I believe I saw a good how-to on cuddletech.