OK Glenn and James, your opinion is better than any informed decision I am apt to make. --- I have used UNIX since Bell Labs V6, through BSD, SunOS 4.1.3c, Linux for the last few years, currently Open Suse 10.2 and 10.3. I am pretty happy, but sick of fiddling, and want data security. I have run Solaris 2 as a user, and poke around on a Solaris U4 server at work which was installed by someone else. Right now I have a difficult time finding how to do anything on Solaris, but I am going there. --- I have two applications:
[1] File server with ZFS hosting all of my old IDE disks ( I have obtained out-of-production ITE8212 PCI IDE cards from a guy in Hong-Kong and reflashed with a special BIOS from ITE to make them work under Solaris to get over the HW support hump). I need NFS, Samba. I am used to maintaining the configuration files of both of these by hand, but have never installed them. CUPS would be very nice. LDAP would be nice for central authentication across Solaris, Linux, Mac, and perhaps Windows, and finding of home directory, but I don't have a clue how to make it go. I need an iSCSI initiator to access two SATA disks on another machine so I can backup to a ZFS disk that is not local. [2] My family's desktops. Right now we run Suse Linux 10.x with KDE and are pretty happy. --- My very immediate need is to get the server going. The desktop I expect to lag until Indiana is out and dependable. Can you tell me what you think I should do for the server (What Solaris should I run), why, and what the tradeoffs / caveats are? I am ready to go. Thanks again. This message posted from opensolaris.org
