Time to share your newly created ZFS volume via samba to your windows clients. There is some CIFS / SMB support built into the kernel now, but i’ve grown used to the SMB server…
Fire up add software - click filesystems - enable filter for “smb”, there are three packages generally. I get all three, but you only need the kernel update and the server package. The other is the SMB client.
Hmm… i’ve been having problems since the 2009.06 (snv_111b) update with cifs.
Cant pin it exactly as it could be “load” related… hmmm.
found this ? http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=107681 this also may be a clue.. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=92472&tstart=75
imapd ? might have to go back to 2008.11
You might get better performance if you enable oplocks but there are known issues with it but you can do it just to see if you see any difference:
svccfg -s smb/server setprop smbd/oplock_enable=boolean: true
I have done most of the explaining in another post on how the permissions work with a zfs cifs share - link here.
In this post I’m going to show an example of how to add multiple groups / users to a specific folder. Which then recursively adds its ACL’’s to any child objects. Its essentially like the other commands i used, but with an extra line per user or group you want to configure;
OpenSolaris 2008.11 has a cifs/smb server built into the kernel. From what i have been reading (and discovering) this is a much more efficient and faster way to get your files out into the network.
Previously i have run a dedicated samba service to share my files as I’ve come from various linux distros which require it. Seems i should be doing things differently on OpenSolaris.
The dedicated samba service is called;