Note that you can't run both samba and the Solaris CIFS service
on a system at the same time - because they both attempt to listen
on the same ports.

I've used IPP on Windows to talk to network printers but I haven't
tried configuring Windows/Mac clients to use CUPS/IPP with Solaris
as the print server.  Seems like a good experiment regardless of
the CIFS service in use.

Alan
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On 12/01/08 16:06, Afshin Salek wrote:
> Solaris CIFS server does not print sharing yet (only file sharing
> for now) so yes you'll need Samba for that.
> 
> Afshin
> 
> Bill Shannon wrote:
>> Jordan Brown wrote:
>>> Without knowing the implementation details, can we agree that the 
>>> requirement on the Solaris CIFS server is that it be configurable to 
>>> support whatever it is that an XP Home system does when you say 
>>> "\\servername" to its Explorer, in a way that is from the client user 
>>> point of view identical to the way it works with Windows?
>>>
>>> I don't know what it's doing (but I can get network captures if 
>>> desired), but if I put a brand-new-from-BestBuy computer on my network 
>>> and set its workgroup name to HOME, I can say "\\dog\Jordan" and be 
>>> browsing my directory on my desktop, read-write.  (And similarly for 
>>> access via "My Network Places".)  I'm not sure it's actually necessary 
>>> to set the workgroup name.
>>>
>>> Solaris CIFS server should be configurable to do that, so that I could 
>>> replacing my existing XP Home "dog" with a Solaris system and have the 
>>> change be completely transparent to the client systems.
>>>
>>> Right?
>>>
>> That's certainly what I want.
>>
>> And similarly, I want to be able to replace a Unix system running Samba
>> with an OpenSolaris system using cifs, including allowing guest access.
>>
>> (BTW, am I still going to need Samba for printers, or will CUPS handle
>> that natively?)
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