Re: [cifs-discuss] Opensolaris/ZFS as a file server in a Windows domain

2009-11-23 Thread Jordan Brown
Thanassis Tsiodras wrote: If I use the share from a Windows PC, where a domain user has logged in, the generated folders/files indeed seem to belong to the same user (when reviewed from another machine). The ACLs appear to survive reboots... Do they? i.e. is this guaranteed? Yes, it is guara

Re: [cifs-discuss] Opensolaris/ZFS as a file server in a Windows domain

2009-11-23 Thread Thanassis Tsiodras
Perfect, thanks - that puts my mind at ease :-) A relevant question, for backups of the file server: Besides "zfs send | ssh ... ", are there any other backup mechanisms that store these "special" smb-generated ACLs? Preferably, some that offer individual file retrieval possibility (like tar - whi

Re: [cifs-discuss] Opensolaris/ZFS as a file server in a Windows domain

2009-11-23 Thread Jordan Brown
Thanassis Tsiodras wrote: A relevant question, for backups of the file server: Besides "zfs send | ssh ... ", are there any other backup mechanisms that store these "special" smb-generated ACLs? Preferably, some that offer individual file retrieval possibility (like tar - which again accordi

[cifs-discuss] Windows Vista Access via My Network Places Forces Daily Re-authentication

2009-11-23 Thread Alan Landucci-Ruiz
I have a customer who is required daily to re-authenticate to the share that she has in her "My Network Places" folder. I've turned off the timeouts for the share, but the logs indicate that her authentication is done using the wrong domain. While she should be trying to authenticate using dom

Re: [cifs-discuss] Windows Vista Access via My Network Places Forces Daily Re-authentication

2009-11-23 Thread Alan Wright
Possibly because her UNIX\USER name or password is different from her WINDOMAIN\USER name and password. Try explicitly mapping a share as UNIX\USER and tell the client to remember the mapping or reconnect automatically. Please note that we advise against using build snv_111b for SMB/CIFS because

Re: [cifs-discuss] Opensolaris/ZFS as a file server in a Windows domain

2009-11-23 Thread Alan Wright
Thanassis Tsiodras wrote: Perfect, thanks - that puts my mind at ease :-) A relevant question, for backups of the file server: Besides "zfs send | ssh ... ", are there any other backup mechanisms that store these "special" smb-generated ACLs? There are no special smb-generated ACLs. ZFS has