On Monday 08 May 2006 09:45, Anze Vidmar wrote: > > Think about it; Solaris is big on servers, not so big > > on desktops (until the recent > > push to fix that, anyway). Having a Solaris server > > use a Windows share is > > like having a tractor-trailer towed by a Yugo; and > > that's probably an insult to > > the Yugo. OTOH, it certainly would be handy on a > > Solaris desktop. > > first of all, I'm not talking about desktop, but solaris server that is > runing ARCINFO for a lot of users on it. > > > Is there a reason that SFU (Windows services for Unix > > - a free download from microsoft.com) can't be put on > > the Windows server, so that you can > > use plain old NFS to mount from it? That should work > > Yes it is, the reason is: it's NOT working well. The SFU is outdated and > It's for playing only. It's not a product that you would put on the > production server (cluster). But as I've already pointed out in my early > post, this is different subject that's already been solved with 3rd party > software that is able to export windows shares over NFS for *nix servers. > > So, I'm still interesting in the *real* reason for this "issue".
Have you tried Novell iFolder? yeah, I know, it uses Mono, but its better than nothing. Matty _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
