On 1/23/2010 5:19 AM, Nicholas Brealey wrote:
The Sun 7310 is a storage appliance. It is not running Solaris 10 but runs an OS based on Open Solaris with CIFS and Windows style authentication integrated in the kernel.
I lied a little. I do know how to login to this box, but that's only because a Sun support person told me how. This was necessary to fix a non-Samba related problem. It sure looks like Solaris to me. In any case, I had to promise I wouldn't make any changes that weren't authorized by Sun. I intend on keeping this promise.
Installing Samba is not an option.
I agree 100%.
You really should be using the integrated CIFs server. It is probably simpler to set up than Samba but is probably not as flexible (has fewer configuration options).
I'm not sure how simple it is to setup. For example, I couldn't even figure out what share name it generates. Although the performance and price of the 7310 are excellent, its documentation is not.
There is a simulator you can play with to learn how to set it up.
I know. I used it when I was deciding whether to buy the 7310. > The manual is available on the Internet or from the storage device. The "manual" is just the help system on the device, as you say. It says very little about how to set up CIFS shares.
There is a forum where these devices are discussed. You almost certainly got a support contract when you bough the device.
I didn't know about a support forum. I'll check into that. I do have a support contract but if it's necessary to call support for something as simple as this, then somebody has blown it - either Sun or me.
If you cannot use its CIFS server (ie if you are using a NT 4 style domain or a Samba PDC) perhaps using iSCSI to the Linux box and sharing with Samba is the next best option.
None of these apply. Besides, I'd still like to understand the fundamental issue, which is why Samba behaves differently when it server NFS mounts than it does when it serves local files.
http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=831
I'll check there. Thanks. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
