Hi all, I know Sun has made some big additions to Solaris in the area of Windows<->Solaris interoperability. The part I'm most familiar with is the CIFS server and client.
The part I'm fuzzy on are the nameservies interoperation. I know the CIFS server required a bunch of work to deal with windows user and groups for file ownership and access control. What is new in Solaris though for shareing usernames and passwords (and other account information) between Windows and Solaris? For example, is it possible for a Solaris machine to participate in a Windows Active Driectory Domain as a client? as a Domain Controller? Another question, is if/when Windows users login on Solaris, where/how is the UID/GID assigned? The reason I ask is that I'm really looking for a solution that will let me set both linux and Solaris to share usernames and passwords with Windows, while Linux and Solaris share files through NFS. The easiest way I know of to get a linux machine to join an AD domain, is with WinBind, but AFAIK WinBind isn't a great solution if your users already have UIDs and GIDs assigned on Linux, since it wants to create newones from the Windows SID. I suppose normally it would just mean a large number of chown's, but it's not that easy when the files that need to change are in something like ClearCase. So how does Solaris handle this (if it does?) If it does it in simliar way to WinBind, is it too much to hope that it uses the same algorithm for SID-->UID as WinBind? I mean I can deal with a 1 time chown, but to do what I need on the Unix/NFS side I really need Solaris and Linux to agree on UIDs and GIDs. Is there someway that Solaris can export it's tranlation to linux through an AD<->NIS converter? Where's the best place to read up more on this? -Kyle _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
