Steven Sim wrote:
Thanks for your swift, to the point and very effective reply!
You're welcome.
Firstly, please forgive me if my statements below do not make any sense.
My superficial understanding of the technology may lead me to state
things which are foolish and irrelevant.
Bear with me.
Not to worry. (Alas, you'll find my replies below to be not very helpful.)
I am seeking to craft a solution with the following features and properties;
1. Windows PDC or AD Emulation with replication across CIFS server boxes.
2. Windows client domain logon with DOS BATCH scripts
These we can't help you with. We are not a domain controller. (Samba
might be able to help you here; I don't know.)
3. Synergy between Windows user logon and Unix users
That's our bread and butter.
4. ZFS constant time rotational snapshots (I've crafted a script for
this so this is done).
We talk to the ZFS people all the time, but we aren't the ZFS people.
5. Roll back feature with Windows "Previous Version" tab. (Current
ZFS CIFS Service does this very well with ZFS snapshots!). Awesome
work by your team!
Thanks.
6. Dedup ( > snv_128a)
7. Dedup replication (not yet tested but theoretically possible with
zfs send -D)
These are ZFS issues.
The objective is to craft a minimum two box solution with ZFS dedup
replication across the boxes and PDC/AD services also replicating across
the same boxes. So if one fails...
SAMBA 4.0 is supposedly to have integrated limited AD LDAP and Kerberos
features into the mixed. I would love to have that and in fact have been
trying to compile SAMBA 4.0 on snv_128a (x64) to no avail.
If PDC and/or AD is not in the road map, I was thinking to setup SAMBA
4.0 on a Sun Linux Zone and have that act as the PDC while configuring
CIFS (in another zone) to authenticate against the emulated PDC.
Would that make sense or am I talking nonsense?
Sounds plausible to me. However, I (and we) don't know a lot about Samba's
capabilities in this area.
I'm kind of surprised that you can't compile Samba on Solaris. Again, we
aren't related to Samba, but I was under the impression that Solaris was a
fully supported platform for them.
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