See below. David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm upgrading a home fileserver that was running under Samba. Being a > glutton for punishment, and since CIFS is included in Solaris 8-11 or > whatever the exact nomenclature is (open Solaris, November release), I'm > trying to use CIFS instead of just duplicating my Samba configuration. > Thus, I'm completely new to CIFS. > > There's no domain controller here, everything is done with a workgroup. > I've found the part of the CIFS admin manual that says how to join a > workgroup, and done that, with apparent success (it reported success at > the time). I've added the line to the PAM configuration, and re-set the > password of the user I want to connect as. I've created a scratch ZFS > filesystem with the characteristics documented as needed to make it > shareable via CIFS. Sharemgr shows it as in fact shared. > > I'm not clear if any of the "identity mapping" stuff applies to Workgroup > access. I'd like to map the username my windows system is used to using > to connect into my Solaris username on the server, as I did previously in > Samba. Should that be possible? How? Which kind of idmap thingy do I > have to use? The manual makes it sound like it only works for AD > situations, though.
The idmap daemon basically provides name mappings between Solaris and Windows. Without a Windows domain controller SIDs can not be turned into Windows user/groups names and hence name based mappings will only work for well known Windows SIDs. Regards Julian > > I think I'm having trouble with the old connection from the Windows box > (which is still around; it thinks I'm working "offline" now, since my My > Documents directory is on the file server, which I'm not connecting to > yet). I'm going to try to get that completely cleaned up, and see if > anything more useful can be made to happen. _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
