Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-06-02 Thread Tom Buskey
> Justin, > > Thanks for the reply > > In the environment I currently work in, the "powers > that be" are almost > completely anti unix. Installing the nfs client on > all machines would take > a real good sales pitch. None the less I am still I've pro unix & I'm against putting NFS on all the P

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-05-30 Thread Keith Bierman
On May 30, 2008, at 6:49 AM 5/30/, Craig J Smith wrote: > > It also should be noted that I am > having to run on Solaris and not Opensolaris due to adaptec > am79c973 scsi > driver issues in Opensolaris. Well that is probably a showstopper then, since the in-kernel support isn't in the pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-05-30 Thread Keith Bierman
On May 30, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Craig Smith wrote: > The tough thing is trying to make this fit > well in a Windows world. If you hang all the disks off the OpenSolaris system directly, and export via CIFS ... isn't it just a NAS box from the windows perspective? If so, how is it any harder to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-05-30 Thread Craig Smith
Justin, Thanks for the reply In the environment I currently work in, the "powers that be" are almost completely anti unix. Installing the nfs client on all machines would take a real good sales pitch. None the less I am still playing with the client in our sandbox. As I install this on a test mac

[zfs-discuss] ZFS sharing options for Windows

2008-05-28 Thread Craig Smith
Hello, I am fairly new to Solaris and ZFS. I am testing both out in a sandbox at work. I am playing with virtual machines running on a windows front-end that connects to a zfs back-end for its data needs. As far as i know my two options are sharesmb and shareiscsci for data sharing. I have a cou