[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, how to get there

2012-09-04 Thread Open Indiana
I have multiple Windows 2008 servers that need to write to a shared storage somewhere in the network. One of the servers will gather and process all files on that drive. We thought we were good with iSCSI but that doesn't seem to work, because multiple Windows machines cannot share a NTFS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

2012-09-04 Thread DavidHalko
Hello All!!! I was just wondering how this is coming along. I would like to see OI actually running! (it would not work on my last couple of laptops, so I have been unable to contribute much outside of wikipedia blog updates.) I may be able to test on: - V100 - V120 - V240 - Ultra60 Are we

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Thanks. It was a rather daunting array of possibilities. --- On Mon, 9/3/12, Bill Sommerfeld sommerf...@alum.mit.edu wrote: From: Bill Sommerfeld sommerf...@alum.mit.edu Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Monday, September 3,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Backup User for zfs send and receive

2012-09-04 Thread James Carlson
Flo wrote: Hi, I must confess, that I never used pfexec. If an user has that permission to use commands with pfexec, do I need to enter a password? No. How can I give a user the permission ZFS File System Management without a GUI? Edit /etc/user_attr and add it to the profiles= for that

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, how to get there

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Creamer
I have a OI based storage server that hosts a number of CIFS shares used by all of my windows servers and clients. If your primary consumer of the shares will be Windows, that seems like the natural choice. mc On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Open Indiana openindi...@out-side.nlwrote: I have

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Robin Axelsson
I certainly hope you are right. But I also hope you are aware of survival bias that may color your past experiences. It is very easy to look at the successful projects that have managed to survive over the years in retrospect while forgetting about those project that died and fell into

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley
Is it really necessary to convince the freeNAS people to change? Mark Creamer's response to the thread, Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, how to get there seems to point to a simpler solution. Offer as an install time option a configuration of OI w/ ZFS as a file server in a mixed MacOS,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI GRUB and Linux LVM (dualboot) support

2012-09-04 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello all, I'm trying to set up dual-boot with OI 151a5 and a Linux (Fedora 17) on my laptop, and I'm not sure if the two OSes' bootloaders very much compatible. In particular, chainloading from OI GRUB1 into Linux GRUB2 partition yields an error about something not executable. I can't yet

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:01:52 -0700 (PDT), Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: Offer as an install time option a configuration of OI w/ ZFS as a file server in a mixed MacOS, Windows *nix environment. That will require a better groomed Netatalk package SMF manifest. Right now that's

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Open Indiana
+1 Maybe 1 dedicated ISO build to be installed on the HP Microserver which has pre-installed: 1. napp-it (creating networkshares and manage Harddisks at ease) 2. SMTP/POP3 servers with smart configuration scripts so a user can create a mailserver at ease 3. CUPS scripts for printer sharing If

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: That would leave just a good HCL as an obstacle to wider use of OI. The issues with modern/pervasive 4K sector disks on Illumos may also stifle adoption. I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI GRUB and Linux LVM (dualboot) support

2012-09-04 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 4 September 2012 16:17, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to set up dual-boot with OI 151a5 and a Linux (Fedora 17) on my laptop, and I'm not sure if the two OSes' bootloaders very much compatible. In particular, chainloading from OI GRUB1 into Linux GRUB2

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread James Relph
That will require a better groomed Netatalk package SMF manifest. Right now that's a slightly messy thing to set up. This to some extent goes back to something I've been talking about recently. The current version of netatalk (v3) is actually excellent on OI. NetAFP added cross-protocol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:53:10 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:06:06 +0100, James Relph ja...@themacplace.co.uk wrote: This to some extent goes back to something I've been talking about recently. The current version of netatalk (v3) is actually excellent on OI. NetAFP added cross-protocol file locking with the native CIFS client

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:53:10 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: I am unware of 4K sector disk issues in Illumos. http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4883847 Most significantly, the issue was

[OpenIndiana-discuss] 4k sector bug

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:47:43 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: Most significantly, the issue was RESOLVED four months ago. Unfortunately, George Wilson did not update the bug entry correctly so it is still shown as 0% done even though the issue was resolved. I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT), Reginald Beardsley pulask...@yahoo.com wrote: I think this is an excellent point. Start small and build up from there. The home/SOHO market is a lot of units. Witness Iomega is a subsidiary of EMC. Illumos + Netatalk + management interface could

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

2012-09-04 Thread Open Indiana
Big compliments!! You moved some Mountains! -Original Message- From: Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) [mailto:mar...@martux.org] Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2012 20:45 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Cc: develo...@lists.illumos.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread James Relph
AD issues are going to require someone tenacious, motivated, and a bit masochistic as it's historically been a bit of a moving target. AD seems reasonably stable these days, and in fact the current Illumos strategy works 90% of the way, it's the idmap that actually breaks down because of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

2012-09-04 Thread magnus
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:26:31 -0600, fi...@linuxbsdos.com wrote: My response is not necessarily specific to this thread, but has any body looked at what OmniOs guys are doing, and see if there is a possibility of pooling resources. So there is a sort of scope to OmniOS where I would think

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] stty source code

2012-09-04 Thread Reginald Beardsley
I've cloned the repository but find that the Makefile is expecting state to be set in the shell. Where would I find details on what I need to have set to compile just the things in usr/src/cmd/ttymon Is that possible? I'm really not eager to take on building everything as my OI box is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

2012-09-04 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hi ok, today I broke my rule and did login again. Thanks for your encouraging pn's :) One update: After 8 years it was about time to get a new DVD burner, these are unbelievably cheap now. Connected to SB2k via off the shelf USB2 pci-controller with NEC chipset. Now I can handle DVD-RAM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Magnus
On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I expect that this became available in oi_151a_prestable5 (however, oi_151a_prestable6 is out today!). Hi Bob, I'm looking at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/ and it looks like 151a5 is the latest available to the public right now. Does

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

2012-09-04 Thread Jan Owoc
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Magnus mag...@yonderway.com wrote: On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I expect that this became available in oi_151a_prestable5 (however, oi_151a_prestable6 is out today!). I'm looking at http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/ and it looks like