Samba's integration with ZFS wasn't that great last time I tested. I had all kinds of permission problems, mainly with inheritance. Windows deals with deny entries very differently to Unix and I kept finding my test accounts were denied access to new files & folders.
Also, while I'm no Samba expert, from my own tests and from reading the Samba manuals, my feeling is that Samba and the Solaris CIFS service have different aims. Samba seems to have the aim of making Unix / Linux files available to windows clients, and there's no denying it does that very well. However, nowhere have I seem them state that their aim is to be indistinguishable from a windows server, whereas I do remember reading something to that effect on a Sun blog about the CIFS service. >From what I've seen, Samba applies standard Unix permissions to files, and >while that works to an extent, it's simply not suitable as a replacement for a >windows server for anybody who actually uses NTFS permissions extensively. My hope is that Sun's CIFS service will end up working more like the services on EMC or NetApp NAS devices, allowing us to use it as a true replacement for our windows file servers. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
