Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-07 Thread Frank Lahm
2012/9/7 Gordon Ross : > I'd also be curious what are the exact circumstances where you saw > idmap change its mapping for some SID to a different ephemeral ID. > Note that TTL expiration does not cause a mapping to be destroyed. It > only causes it to be re-checked via name lookup rules, etc. Ja

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread Gordon Ross
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:37 AM, James Relph wrote: >>> >> really? Can you elaborate? The thing is, I'm in the process of >> compiling and updated winbind from latest Samba sources (and >> documenting that process) in order to test with that if the problems >> with supplementary groups go away and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread James Relph
> Having winbind and Solaris CIFS joined to AD at the same time can not > be done by default, as both will try to associate the computer account > in AD with their own authentication system and change the machine > password. Back to square one. > -f Do you need CIFS to be joined to AD? Can you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread Frank Lahm
2012/9/6 Frank Lahm : > 2012/9/6 James Relph : >>> You need to post and/or analyse the errorlog of the smb service. >>> Assuming killed more cats than curiosity ;-) >> >> I know, but this had been a bit of a marathon getting to this point alone, >> and all I needed at the time was AFP. I will hav

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread Frank Lahm
2012/9/6 James Relph : >> You need to post and/or analyse the errorlog of the smb service. >> Assuming killed more cats than curiosity ;-) > > I know, but this had been a bit of a marathon getting to this point alone, > and all I needed at the time was AFP. I will have another look when I get >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread James Relph
> You need to post and/or analyse the errorlog of the smb service. > Assuming killed more cats than curiosity ;-) > I know, but this had been a bit of a marathon getting to this point alone, and all I needed at the time was AFP. I will have another look when I get half an hour. James. __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread Open Indiana
-discuss] Illumos as a NAS >> > really? Can you elaborate? The thing is, I'm in the process of > compiling and updated winbind from latest Samba sources (and > documenting that process) in order to test with that if the problems > with supplementary groups go away and if it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-06 Thread James Relph
>> > really? Can you elaborate? The thing is, I'm in the process of > compiling and updated winbind from latest Samba sources (and > documenting that process) in order to test with that if the problems > with supplementary groups go away and if it works with Solaris CIFS. After I'd installed winb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread Magnus
I'd have to buy a new Mac to get Thunderbolt. It's a new feature that only the newest Macs have. Most Macs in the field now still don't have that option. Time will change that, of course. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Didier Carlier wrote: > > On 05 Sep 2012, at 14:21, Mag

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread Didier Carlier
On 05 Sep 2012, at 14:21, Magnus wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Didier Carlier wrote: >> >> The use case described is handled perfectly by OSX server ($15 these >> days...). >> It might still be a good idea but don't believe that Mac users are waiting >> for such a NAS without any al

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread Magnus
On Sep 5, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Didier Carlier wrote: > > The use case described is handled perfectly by OSX server ($15 these days...). > It might still be a good idea but don't believe that Mac users are waiting > for such a NAS without any alternatives… My iTunes library is pushing 2TB these day

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread Frank Lahm
2012/9/5 James Relph : > >> what about using winbind? Works with Netatalk and I guess it will also >> work with Solaris CIFS. >> >> We haven't been able to get supplementary groups working, but I'm >> pretty sure that could be solved, possibly by installing an updated >> winbind from sources. > > W

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread James Relph
> what about using winbind? Works with Netatalk and I guess it will also > work with Solaris CIFS. > > We haven't been able to get supplementary groups working, but I'm > pretty sure that could be solved, possibly by installing an updated > winbind from sources. Hi Frank, Winbind worked straigh

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread Frank Lahm
Hey James! 2012/9/4 James Relph : > >> AD issues are going to require someone tenacious, motivated, and a bit >> masochistic as it's historically been a bit of a moving target. > > AD seems reasonably stable these days, and in fact the current Illumos > strategy works 90% of the way, it's the idm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-05 Thread Didier Carlier
On 04 Sep 2012, at 18:37, wrote: > > > On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:06:06 +0100, "James Relph" > wrote: > >> This to some extent goes back to something I've been talking about >> recently. The current version of netatalk (v3) is actually excellent on >> OI. NetAFP added cross-protocol file locki

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:26:31 -0600, fi...@linuxbsdos.com wrote: > My response is not necessarily specific to this thread, but has any > body looked at what OmniOs guys are doing, and see if there is a > possibility of pooling resources. So there is a sort of scope to OmniOS where I would think

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread finid
My response is not necessarily specific to this thread, but has any body looked at what OmniOs guys are doing, and see if there is a possibility of pooling resources. Merge efforts, so that there are more resources to direct at what we are trying to do. Of course, it means that some people wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread James Relph
> AD issues are going to require someone tenacious, motivated, and a bit > masochistic as it's historically been a bit of a moving target. AD seems reasonably stable these days, and in fact the current Illumos strategy works 90% of the way, it's the idmap that actually breaks down because of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT), Reginald Beardsley wrote: > I think this is an excellent point. Start small and build up from there. > The home/SOHO market is a lot of units. Witness Iomega is a subsidiary of > EMC. Illumos + Netatalk + management interface could be more of a Drobo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley
--- On Tue, 9/4/12, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: [snip] > > Low hanging fruit is to ignore the AD integration for now, > make this a good > NAS for home users without the AD integration issues > resolved. Example of a > common use case: iTunes media library. 2+ TB of music, > movies, books, > p