Re: [cifs-discuss] Windows 7 can't connect to CIFS server

2009-08-13 Thread Ross Smith
The error message makes me think it's an account restriction set on your windows server. Does the user account you are using have any restrictions set restricting the computers it's allowed to 'Log on to' in active directory? On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Leonid Kogan wrote: > Hi there, > I

Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS server just died

2009-07-27 Thread Ross Smith
memory leak in idmap which we're waiting on a fix for. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Afshin Salek wrote: > Any core/crash dumps? > > A network trace when you do "net view" and you get the error plus > cifs-gendiag output would be useful. > > Afshin > > Ross

Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS server just died

2009-07-27 Thread Ross Smith
Whoops, forgot a file.. Here's the snoop output. Ross On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Ross Smith wrote: > Hi Afshin, > > No, it didn't crash at all, CIFS just stopped working. > > It seems that all shares are down with the same error, the one we > usually use is

[cifs-discuss] CIFS server just died

2009-07-24 Thread Ross Smith
Hi folks, We've just come across a brand new error on our CIFS server. We had a write error appear on a client, and found that we were unable to access the share. Attempting to run a "net view" from a windows command prompt gives an error: "System error 123 has occurred. The filename, directory

Re: [cifs-discuss] Move a folder in a smb shared directory to trash?

2009-07-20 Thread Ross Smith
I think you'll find that's standard behaviour for any windows server, not just Solaris. There are a few NAS devices out there that have implemented their own 'network recycle bin', but in general recycle bins only work for local files. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Philipp Speck wrote: > I r

Re: [cifs-discuss] [zfs-discuss] ZFS file permissions - some files missing over SMB?

2009-07-14 Thread Ross Smith
Also, if you're looking at 0777 permissions, I believe those are the wrong ones for cifs. What does "ls -V" show you for the permissions? On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Joyce McIntosh wrote: > If you can provide a binary network packet capture of a directory listing > request from the windows

Re: [cifs-discuss] List client sessions on server and disconnect

2009-06-27 Thread Ross Smith
Those slides appear to show svrmgr.exe - the Windows NT server manager utility, included in NT, 2000 and XP (and probably in the later systems too, but I haven't checked). However, if that works, you'll probably find that the more recent management consoles also work. If you right-click my comput

Re: [cifs-discuss] smb/server hanging in snv_112 AD domain

2009-06-25 Thread Ross Smith
I heard today that 116 had been recalled for some reason, but snv_117 would be out soon. I don't know what that means for OpenSolaris though I'm afraid. Personally I'm sticking with the fortnightly builds until OpenSolaris 2009.11. Ross On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Daniel Liebster wrote: >

Re: [cifs-discuss] Robocopy problems with Solaris CIFS server

2009-06-23 Thread Ross Smith
Thanks Jay, sounds like a handy trick to have up my sleeve, but it didn't help in this case, I still get the same error. However, I have found that the details I gave above appear to be wrong. It now looks like it's not /B causing this, it's /COPYALL. I suspect that's an error on my part rather

Re: [cifs-discuss] Robocopy problems with Solaris CIFS server

2009-06-22 Thread Ross Smith
only users can be a member of local groups. > > Afshin > > Ross Smith wrote: >> >> No, it won't be file permissions based.  I've already granted full >> permissions at the file and folder level. >> >> I was wondering if Solaris had something like the

Re: [cifs-discuss] [install-discuss] 2009.06 shutdown issue

2009-06-19 Thread Ross Smith
Releases come out once a fortnight, so sometime around next Friday is when I would expect to see it. On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: >> On 06/15/09 17:28, Carl Brewer wrote: >> > Any update on this? I'm wanting to go live with a >> LAN server and CIFS, but this is a showstopp

Re: [cifs-discuss] Robocopy problems with Solaris CIFS server

2009-06-19 Thread Ross Smith
Jun 19, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: > Ross Smith wrote: >> >> Oh of course!  Sorry, I'm not used to having systems that aren't full >> domain members, my brain's gotten lazy. >> >> This user has full rights in windows - they're a dom

Re: [cifs-discuss] Robocopy problems with Solaris CIFS server

2009-06-19 Thread Ross Smith
Oh of course! Sorry, I'm not used to having systems that aren't full domain members, my brain's gotten lazy. This user has full rights in windows - they're a domain admin, but they're not setup as any particular user on the Solaris system. What do I need to do to grant permissions to a windows e

Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS stops working after upgrade from OS 0811 to

2009-05-22 Thread Ross Smith
Yeah, I think 2009.11 is going to be one to watch out for. We'll be running sxce until then, but we're definitely looking forward to moving to the OpenSolaris codebase. I guess it says a lot for my confidence in Sun that I'm seriously considering rolling out a live server on a fornightly sxce bui

Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS stops working after upgrade from OS 0811 to

2009-05-21 Thread Ross Smith
I've been having problems too, and yesterday was told about this bug by Sun: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6842427 Apparently that was introduced in snv_106 which is exactly when our problems started. We'd been able to run snv_104 for ages without any crashing problem

Re: [cifs-discuss] Problems with cifs in snv_106

2009-05-20 Thread Ross Smith
Well, the swap error I don't know about for sure, that may just be something that's snuck in to sxce. However this server is a clean install, isn't used for anything other than cifs, and that error occurs after an idmap error, so I think it's likely to be related. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:46 P

Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS stops working after upgrade from OS 0811 to OS 0906

2009-05-20 Thread Ross Smith
May 20 08:24:55 ROB-039V smbd[4096]: [ID 266262 daemon.error] ROBINSONS\Ross Smith: idmap failed May 20 08:24:55 ROB-039V smbd[4096]: [ID 622271 daemon.error] smb_idmap_restart: idmap_init failed (RPC error) May 20 08:24:55 ROB-039V smbd[4096]: [ID 266262 daemon.error] ROBINSONS\Build2003: idmap faile

Re: [cifs-discuss] Problems with cifs in snv_106

2009-05-20 Thread Ross Smith
Is this somebody else having the same problem? Just like with me, it started after upgrading beyond snv_104. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=103071&tstart=0 On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Ross Smith wrote: > Alan:  Copying you in for info, but don't you dare

Re: [cifs-discuss] ephemeral authentication with windows-group-sid doesn't

2009-05-19 Thread Ross Smith
In case it helps, I just repeated this test here, on a sxce_114 CIFS server joined to our domain: 1. Create a new folder 'ross-test' through windows. It inherits permissions and just the 'domain admins' group has access 2. Solaris permissions: # ls -vd ross-test d-+ 2 2147491841 2147491

Re: [cifs-discuss] Best way to run 114 (now)

2009-05-13 Thread Ross Smith
The snv or Solaris Express builds come out roughly every fortnight, so 114 should be ready any time now. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Jeb Campbell wrote: > I'm not sure how people are deploying cifs ... is everyone running 101b in > production? > > We are getting close to find the best mix

Re: [cifs-discuss] Best version for deployment 111a or 101b?

2009-05-08 Thread Ross Smith
I'm sitting here waiting for 114 and crossing my fingers. We were able to run snv_94 for ages without problems, but like yourselves we really want shadow copy. The problem is, since snv_106 we've not been able to get a stable server going. However, I have a feeling that our problems may be uniqu

Re: [cifs-discuss] File change notifications?

2009-04-29 Thread Ross Smith
n there is: Apr 29 13:37:24 rob-039v smbsrv: [ID 138215 kern.notice] NOTICE: smbd[ROBINSONS\Ross Smith]: admi share not found And the content of the idmap log file is: # cat /var/svc/log/system-idmap\:default.log [ Apr 29 16:56:03 Stopping because service restarting. ] [ Apr 29 16:56:03 Execut

Re: [cifs-discuss] File change notifications?

2009-04-29 Thread Ross Smith
running an SMB server in workgroup mode, or if you're not running an SMB server, then you can ignore this message Apr 29 04:24:06 rob-039v idmap[1965]: [ID 643943 daemon.notice] Normal operation restored Apr 29 07:48:59 rob-039v smbsrv: [ID 138215 kern.notice] NOTICE: smbd[ROBINSONS\Ross Smith]:

Re: [cifs-discuss] creator/owner - cifs/zfs

2009-04-23 Thread Ross Smith
If I'm following it right that sounds like a good suggestion, and possibly a bug in the current implementation. I'd be interested to see what the Sun guys think. Ross On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Espen Martinsen wrote: > Hi, does anyone knows the solution to this: > > I'm setting up a mix

Re: [cifs-discuss] Problems with cifs in snv_106

2009-04-23 Thread Ross Smith
you? > > I hadn't seen these messages.  Perhaps the forum forwarding is messed > up again, I'll notify the admins. > > Alan > > - Original Message - From: "Ross Smith" > To: "Alan M Wright" ; "Afshin Salek" > S

Re: [cifs-discuss] Another CIFS and permissions

2009-04-15 Thread Ross Smith
Nope, I'm waiting for it too. It's due this week according to the schedule, so with any luck it'll appear by this weekend :) On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan M Wright writes: > >> I'd recommend snv_112. > > Thanks... snv_112 isn't available on the dev repo yet is it?

Re: [cifs-discuss] Fatman In Need Of HELP Part2 - CIFS, Workgroup Environment, Groups....

2009-04-13 Thread Ross Smith
Hmm... >From what I can see, it works fine if you grant everyone all permissions, but then starts to fail as you try to lock it down. That means there's one of two things going wrong: 1. The permissions are too restrictive. 2. The windows groups / users aren't mapping properly to the solaris one

Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS and permission mapping

2009-04-09 Thread Ross Smith
Ok, as a long term windows admin, I'm going to chip in with a couple of comments here. Firstly, I should make clear that I think the CIFS team have done a cracking job with this. An OpenSolaris file server works pretty much exactly like a windows fileserver, which is a huge improvement over Samba

Re: [cifs-discuss] Shadow Copy support for Snapshots

2009-04-07 Thread Ross Smith
It's working fine for me :D I think it went in around snv_106. The only problem is that I've found builds from snv_104 to be a bit unstable for CIFS. I'm looking forward to trying snv_112 in a week or two since that has had a few fixes in that I'm hopeful will resolve things. Failing that, Open

Re: [cifs-discuss] fws: ZFS user/group quotas & space accounting [PSARC/2009/204 FastTrack ti

2009-04-01 Thread Ross Smith
Does it report available space to Windows users so they can manage their quota? On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Alan.M.Wright wrote: > Ross myxi...@googlemail.com wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Have you guys seen the new user quota support being added to ZFS? >> I've just asked there whether it su

Re: [cifs-discuss] Upgrading?

2009-03-24 Thread Ross Smith
Oh god no, snv_86 is very old, and I think CIFS was practically brand new then. We've been running CIFS very reliably on snv_94, and reasonably well in snv_106. It does seem a little more prone to dropping out in snv_106, but there have been some new features added across the board, so it's not e

Re: [cifs-discuss] Are there known headaches with cifs connections

2009-03-23 Thread Ross Smith
The first thing I'd check is permissions. Search the list for "chmod A=everyone", that's something I recommend as a starting step with cifs. Ross On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > (Sorry duplicate a post from `indiana' list: > >  Message-ID: <87d4c9t8e8@newsguy.com> >

Re: [cifs-discuss] SMB/Server write performance = poor

2009-03-22 Thread Ross Smith
There seem to be a few people at the minute saying cifs is slow. It's not something I've noticed myself, and I just ran a quick test on my home snv_106 server and it copied a 100MB file across in just over 2 seconds. We're upgrading to snv_109 at work next week, so I'll do some tests there too in

Re: [cifs-discuss] Symantec Backup Exec

2009-03-19 Thread Ross Smith
Domain mode, with windows managing all the permissions. ZFS is set to case insensitive too. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Jean De Gyns wrote: > sbe 11d can perform the backup if the agent isn't there but it will issue a > warning in the backup report. > > Still I can't get my sbe to access

Re: [cifs-discuss] Symantec Backup Exec

2009-03-19 Thread Ross Smith
I have BackupExec 10d here, and I can browse shares on our Solaris server fine (currently running snv_106). I don't get any prompting for a user account, it'll just be using the system logon account we have configured it to use by default. I can't backup anything on the Solaris server though - I

Re: [cifs-discuss] CIFS performance vs Samba

2009-03-18 Thread Ross Smith
that's great, thanks. we'll turn them on here with 112 :-) On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Jose Borrego wrote: > The oplocks are currently in build 111. There's, as of today, one CR related > to oplocks and it should be fixed in 112. > > > > - Jose > > > > From: cifs-discuss-boun...@opensolari

Re: [cifs-discuss] Kernel panic referencing CIFS service

2009-02-10 Thread Ross Smith
It's probably not related, but I had a snv_106 server hang recently while copying files over CIFS. Hadn't seen any problems at all before I did that upgrade: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=90779&tstart=0 On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Brent Jones wrote: > Hello all, > I

Re: [cifs-discuss] Permissions / ACL setting for top directory of CIFS export

2009-02-07 Thread Ross Smith
I always grant permissions to everybody at the root, then do everything else from windows - I just find it easier. So the command I run is just: # chmod A=everyone@:full_set:fd:allow pool/filesystem So far after doing that it's working just like a windows server as far as permissions are concern

Re: [cifs-discuss] File change notifications?

2009-02-04 Thread Ross Smith
dows explorer. Ross On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Brent Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Ross Smith wrote: >> Well, it's repeatable, but I've no idea how lol. >> >> Just had exactly the same happen today after doing a lot of testing on >

Re: [cifs-discuss] VSS, client-side caching and remote share management available in smv106

2009-02-03 Thread Ross Smith
Works an absolute treat, thanks guys!! Took under an hour to: - Re-install Solaris from scratch on a new ZFS boot pool - Join the system to the domain - Import my storage pool (complete with CIFS shares and permissions!) - Configure the time-slider auto snapshot service Less than an hour to have

Re: [cifs-discuss] VSS, client-side caching and remote share management available in smv106

2009-02-01 Thread Ross Smith
Sweet, thanks for the heads up Alan, this'll be going on our IT server today, and somehow I can't see us going back to Windows for our file servers now :-) On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Alan.M.Wright wrote: > I know some people have been waiting for these features; > they are available in sn

Re: [cifs-discuss] Joining a domain with snv_103

2008-12-08 Thread Ross Smith
It's not quite the same any more though Natalie, the CIFS admin guide recommends having these two lines in krb5.conf: kpasswd_server = dc.example.com kpasswd_protocol = SET_CHANGE When I first started playing with CIFS (very early builds, 78 or so from memory) I'm pretty sure I got CIFS working wi

Re: [cifs-discuss] File change notifications?

2008-12-04 Thread Ross Smith
t be related to that. Probably safe to ignore this for now and I'll raise this again if I ever find what's actually causing it. Ross On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Ross Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > It looks like you're right, it's workin

Re: [cifs-discuss] Expose .ZFS (Snapshots) over CIFS?

2008-12-04 Thread Ross Smith
> > I just did a test from my colleagues machine (xp) and that works. > > see screenshot: > > > > > > Kristof > > > On 04 Dec 2008, at 15:14, Ross Smith wrote: > >> Yeah, those permissions look fine to me. I think this might be a Vista >> thing. >>

Re: [cifs-discuss] Expose .ZFS (Snapshots) over CIFS?

2008-12-04 Thread Ross Smith
Yeah, those permissions look fine to me. I think this might be a Vista thing. Jeff, et all, are you guys able to test with Vista to see if you can reproduce this problem? On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Kristof Van Doorsselaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the screenshot you asked for.

Re: [cifs-discuss] Expose .ZFS (Snapshots) over CIFS?

2008-12-04 Thread Ross Smith
tes in apps :) Ross On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Kristof Van Doorsselaere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ross, > Here are some screenshots > kristof > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Ross Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> My testing was from Windows

Re: [cifs-discuss] Expose .ZFS (Snapshots) over CIFS?

2008-12-04 Thread Ross Smith
My testing was from Windows XP SP3, accessing a snv_103 server that's been joined to a domain, and I've just repeated the test from an XP SP2 client to a 2008.11 b98 server we also have on the domain, and that seems to work fine too. I'm not seeing any sign of the problems you're having there I'm

Re: [cifs-discuss] File change notifications?

2008-12-03 Thread Ross Smith
Hey guys, It looks like you're right, it's working perfectly every time now. I did the original testing on my own XP SP3 workstation, but I've just gone and repeated the test on a whole bunch of machines (SP2 and SP3), and it worked fine on all of them, and also now works fine on the original wor

Re: [cifs-discuss] File change notifications?

2008-12-03 Thread Ross Smith
I spotted today in testing that under some situations it does seem to update. I wasn't able to spot exactly when it was working though, it's definately not working most of the time. Will let you know if I find out anything more concrete. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Alan M Wright <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [cifs-discuss] Joining a domain with snv_103 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-12-01 Thread Ross Smith
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Re: [cifs-discuss] Joining a domain with snv_103

2008-12-01 Thread Ross Smith
No major mistakes then, cool :-) I'll add the ddns stuff to my notes and test it out, I can definately see that being useful to know. Regarding the hostname, I think it is done with the OpenSolaris installer, but not with the one currently included in snv. That installer doesn't prompt for a hos

Re: [cifs-discuss] Performance of CIFS - very slow under 2008.11 RC2? / Permissions Issue

2008-11-27 Thread Ross Smith
Might this be down to caching? Microsoft tune the fileserver to buffer requests in memory before committing to disk. It makes for fast network performance, but does leave you at risk of data loss if you had a power cut before the files were written. Solaris is generally much more careful, and I

Re: [cifs-discuss] permission denied on subdirectories of CIFS share

2008-11-26 Thread Ross Smith
No, you can't cross into separate filesystems with CIFS. While the ZFS path structure makes them look like folders, they're actually very different things, and CIFS can't treat them the same way. There was a previous post on the forum asking this, with a much more detailed reply from Sun, but I c

Re: [cifs-discuss] permission denied on subdirectories of CIFS share

2008-11-26 Thread Ross Smith
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Re: [cifs-discuss] permission denied on subdirectories of CIFS share

2008-11-25 Thread Ross Smith
You have deny entries in there which would tend to cause problems in windows, since there deny entries take precedence over everything else. In particular the everyone deny entry is likely to cause problems. I take a simple approach to security for CIFS, I grant everyone full permissions on t

Re: [cifs-discuss] SunStorage 7000

2008-11-12 Thread Ross Smith
>Privileges: >SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege: On >SeBackupPrivilege: Off >SeRestorePrivilege: Off >Members: >DOMAIN\rchatelain >DOMAIN\Administrateur > > But nothing show in the mmc in the localgroup administrato

Re: [cifs-discuss] SunStorage 7000

2008-11-12 Thread Ross Smith
VSS / Previous Versions is something I'm after too. So far all I've heard is that Sun have gotten a proof of concept working, but it's too early to even estimate a release date for that feature. I don't know about managing shares via MMC, with many CIFS appliances you have to do the management vi

Re: [cifs-discuss] Disk quotas with CIFS & ZFS

2008-11-04 Thread Ross Smith
Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We can only set the quota at the top level then? Am I understanding this > correctly, as I can't set individual quotas for nested ZFS filesystems? > > -Original Message- > From: Ross Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesd

Re: [cifs-discuss] Disk quotas with CIFS & ZFS

2008-11-04 Thread Ross Smith
autohomes share??? > > One last question, do you know how to move your /export/home/ directory to > point to your zfs pool, rather than the pool that it was created under? > > Thanks, > > Matt > > -Original Message- > From: Ross Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [cifs-discuss] Disk quotas with CIFS & ZFS

2008-11-04 Thread Ross Smith
Actually, I forgot to raise the CIFS script stuff until just recently. I logged an RFE just last week for that: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6766364 I raised another RFE too which will be needed to store Windows roaming profiles on a ZFS server: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_

Re: [cifs-discuss] ZFS/CIFS to store Window's User's Folder (via Folder Redirection)?

2008-10-17 Thread Ross Smith
Hey Victor, We're in the early stages of testing Solaris CIFS here, but I thought I'd share my thoughts anyway. We've briefly tested CIFS in a workgroup and a domain environment with no problems, but since we were a 100% windows house, I've not tried to do any username mapping in Solaris. I've f