Hi Tdh, Thanks! Good to know :-)
I've been trying to help myself as much as I can, and I've googled myself to death! The actual post was on this forum, last year, about May-ish I think. Their build was actually slightly earlier than the 2009-6 (I think I got focussed on the 111 in the build number) so when I get home tonight I'll try and find the post again for you. I was a Netware fan until version 5.5 and lost a good chunk of data; about 250gig of personal data vanished forever. ZFS has really got me excited; i've wasted too much money trying to make something which is low cost and yet as safe as possible. The possibility of making something scalable like this is the answer to a prayer. At home, I've got things like an x-box (yes, the original) and other things that rely on SMB ... I haven't checked whether they work yet; I need to get Ubuntu talking with the shares that I've set up ... but as I actually got a connection to NFS first, I thought I'd at least get around the permissions thing. So ... that is the question ... how do I mount an NFS share, published on the Open Solaris box, from the Ubuntu box and specify the user (and password if possible) that I want to connect as. I'm starting to conclude that the permissions configuration file for NFS is it ... which means that I've got to be logged on to the workstation with the same UID as the server ... that'll cramp my style! Once I've got that working, then I can battle the same issue with SMB. I am actually starting to fear that some of the other smb devices like the xbox, won't be able to connect to smb. Time will tell. Solaris might feel the same as Linux, but it is different in a number of respects, and I'm finding it a steeper learning curve than I thought. I did at least manage to get a network driver installed on my own ... I thought it would be the other way around; that the big stuff I'd need help with and the little stuff would just be a google away, but it is proving to be the other way around ... the small things are really tripping me up. I suppose the good thing about this is that I'm documenting what I'm doing so that other people can follow. At the moment, all that I've posted are the small, attractive bits of ZFS http://www.youtube.com/msknight5#g/u - but once I've got all the technical stuff ironed out, I'll be blogging and videoing ... so that other people don't have to go through what I've done, and why http://technilife.blogspot.com/2010/01/plan-where-did-it-all-go-wrong.html ... and hopefully make less of an impact on you folks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
