If the directory already exists then do chown -R {username}:{groupname} {directoryname}
If you try to retrieve the directory from windows you might give the username as {workgroupname}\{username} If you have a pc that is part of a domain (like your office pc) then joining a CIFS on a local/private server can be a pain. Kind regards, The out-side Op 10 jul. 2013 om 15:04 heeft James Carlson <carls...@workingcode.com> het volgende geschreven: > On 07/10/13 07:57, Daniel Kjar wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am trying to get CIFS working to share a home drive to a windows 8 >> machine. The pool already exists and I don't use auto_home. >> >> I tried just zfs set sharesmb=on home and that made it discoverable but >> when i try to log in I get authentication denied. >> >> I looked at the instructions online and saw all kinds of stuff that I am >> not sure if I really need to do. Most of the instructions I find are >> either oracle telling me to make a pool from scratch or samba specific. >> Do I need to do that or can I use the existing pool? > > You should be able to use the existing file system. There are some > issues with respect to the expected case matching rules for CIFS, but as > long as you don't play games by creating files that differ only in > alphabetic case, you should be fine. > > The short answer is that you need this in /etc/pam.conf: > > other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn > > and you then need to change the password for each user who will use the > CIFS shares. You can "change" it to the same password as it is now. > The important part is that the change process itself will cache > information that CIFS needs in order to do authentication. > > The above is a one-time issue on a system. Once you do it, it's set. > > I suspect that you've already solved this part, but another one-time > issue is enabling the smb server. "svcadm enable -r smb/server" should > do the job. You may want to join a workgroup with "smbadm join -w > workgroupname". > > I know that others here have said dreadful things about the CIFS server, > but I can't say I've understood the fuss. :-/ > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carls...@workingcode.com> > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss