Re: [zfs-discuss] Questions from a windows admin - Samba, shares & quotas

2007-11-23 Thread Ross
Yeah, I'd seen that, but we're only going to be running 100 users so the boot time shouldn't be too bad. :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Questions from a windows admin - Samba, shares & quotas

2007-11-23 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Yes it will work, and quite nicely indeed. But you need to be careful. Currently ZFS mounting is not "instantaneous", if you have like say 3 users, you might be for a rude surprize as system takes its own merry time (~ few hrs) mounting them at next reboot. Even with auto mounter, things won

Re: [zfs-discuss] Questions from a windows admin - Samba, shares & quotas

2007-11-22 Thread Ross
Well, it looks like I've solved the question of whether you can auto-create the folders. There's a nice little samba script that you can add to the share to do it for you: >From http://www.edplese.com/samba-with-zfs.html Samba's root preexec share parameter can really come in handy when settin

[zfs-discuss] Questions from a windows admin - Samba, shares & quotas

2007-11-22 Thread Ross
Hey folks, This may sound a little crazy, but I'm a long time windows admin planning on rolling out a Solaris server to act as our main filestore, and I could do with a bit of advice. The main reason for switching is so we can use snapshots. With Samba and Microsoft's Shadow Copy Client we ca