Just reading about Solaris CIFS. Wow, what a breakthrough, looking forward to testing it over the next few days.
Background: I had a go at setting up a mock server client environment with Solaris 10 a short while back and the outcome didn't convince me that Solaris was the way to go. There were lots of things I liked about it, but just as many I didn't. Firstly, It was hard to see it as a desktop system, that's changing now, as can be seen with OpenSolaris and gnome etc. Secondly I tried learning / using NIS (without the plus - the older brother) and whilst I really like NFS mounts and autohome etc, I disliked the way it assumes a client is always connected to server, bad for wireless, worse for laptops travelling between diferent network environments. I saw NIS+ and LDAP mentioned but didn't know exactly what they were or their significance. I also tried out Sun Communications Suite as an alternative to Exchange I am used to. I found it better as a mail server in purity but also found it very complex for a SME. The GUI: great that it's web-based but it's hard to figure out compared to Exchange. I felt a lacking of the integration that Exchange and Active Directory has. My Questions: 1) Does Sun Java Directory Server replace NIS and sendmail completely, allowing a user to be created once with both mail/calendar/contacts and file sharing/printing schema, under a common umbrella? 2) Will Solaris CIFS server allow for the parallel use of these ldap user accounts to file share to windows clients? Thus allowing one single enterprise structure to be run and described on Solaris servers to both Windows and Unix and potentially Linux clients? The mail serving is easy because mail protocols are OS independent. 3) How well does LDAP on OpenSolaris clients work in a portable environment. Can laptops work away from the server and sync data upon returning to the server connection. Can SSH and SSHFS provide a solution for off-site connectivity? 4) Have I asked too many questions for one thread?...... Probably. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
