Samba cifs has been in opensolaris from day1. No, it cannot be used to meet sun's end goal which is cifs INTEGRATION with the core kernel. Sun cifs supports windows acl's from the kernel up. Samba does not.
On 6/22/08, Marcelo Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > i would like to continue with this topic, and after doing some "research" > about the topic, i have some (many) doubts, and maybe we could use this > thread to give some responses to me and other users that can have the same > questions... > First, sorry to "CC" to many forums, but i think is a relevant topic to all > of them, so... > Second, would be nice to "clear" the understanding on some topics... > 1) What the difference between the smb server in solaris/opensolaris, and > the "new" project CIFS? > 2) I think samba.org has an implementation of CIFS protocol, to make a > unix-like operating system to be a SMB/CIFS server. Why don't use that? > license problems? the smbserver that is already on solaris/opensolaris is > not a samba.org implementation? > 3) One of the goals to the CIFS Server project on OpenSolaris, is to > support OpenSolaris as a storage operating system... we can not do it with > samba.org implementation, or smbserver implementation that is already there? > 4) And the last one: ZFS has smb/cifs "share/on/off" capabilities, what is > the relation of "that" with "all of that"?? > 5) Ok, there is another question... there is a new projetc (data migration > manager/dmm), that is intend to migrate NFS(GNU/Linux) services, and > CIFS(MS/Windows) services to Solaris/Opensolaris and ZFS. That project is on > storage community i think...but, how can we create a migration plan if we > can not handle the services yet? or can? > Ok, i'm very confuse, but is not just my fault, i think is a little > complicated all this efforts "without" a glue, don't you agree? > And in the top of all, is a need to have an agent to implement HA services > on it... i want implement a SMB/CIFS server on solaris/opensolaris, and > don't know if we have the solution in ou community or not, and if there is > an agent to provide HA or we need to create a project to implement that... > See, i need help.... :-) > > Ok, that's all! > > Leal. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
