Are you running Microsoft Active Directory with domain controllers on your local area network?
The newer builds of OpenSolaris have a "native CIFS" implementation which is IMO much more advanced (and much more performant) than SAMBA / SMB is on Linux and older Solaris. I don't know how experienced you are with CIFS, but it's basically the exact same thing that Windows computers use to talk to eachother on the network but implemented inside the OpenSolaris kernel (i.e. the Microsoft Windows computers actually think that the OpenSolaris box is another Windows computer and not a Linux or UNIX box). This means that OpenSolaris can do things that are almost impossibly difficult to do on Linux like authenticate as part of the active directory (join the domain) and OpenSolaris won't corrupt the case insensitivity or access-list permissions of the files you upload to it like SMB on Linux would (Linux and UNIX / Solaris are case sensitive while WIndows isn't and this creates problems when you use a Linux or UNIX machine as a SAMBA server to Windows NTFS clients). To figure out how to use OpenSolaris CIFS, you might want to start by taking a look here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/cifs-server/ and definitely take a look at this "How to" link here: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_With_the_Solaris_CIFS_Service and you'll probably want to look at these blog entries as well: http://blogs.sun.com/afshinsa/entry/cifs_for_solaris_a_new http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/entry/solaris_cifs_in_workgroup_mode http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/entry/configuring_the_opensolaris_cifs_server http://blogs.sun.com/afshinsa/entry/how_to_enable_guest_access http://blogs.sun.com/afshinsa/entry/solaris_cifs_server_and_zfs http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/en_GB/entry/a_quick_look_solaris_cifs -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
