Re: [zones-discuss] Starting Samba in Open Solaris Non Global Zone

2009-08-17 Thread Robert Thurlow
Wes Mauer wrote: OpenSolaris 0609. I've managed to get Samba installed in a non global zone, but it will not start. If you truss smbd, I expect that this is failing due to a missing privilege: # truss -f /usr/sfw/sbin/smbd ... 15231: so_socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP, 0x,

Re: [zones-discuss] Parallel mount question

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Thurlow
Glenn Faden wrote: Well, it doesn't have to be possible. Instead it should be possible to have the mount(2) syscall detect the loopback NFS and convert it into a lofs mount if, say, a flag is set in the arguments, or even by default. I've thought about doing this in the past, but wasn't

[zones-discuss] How can I make a device show up in a non-global zone?

2007-09-18 Thread Robert Thurlow
Hi all, I'm working on a project (CIFS client) that needs a device driver. I'm working on zones support, including zone checks to make sure cross-zone access doesn't happen. The device doesn't show up in a non-global zone, which doesn't surprise me, since I expect to have to do work to make

Re: [zones-discuss] How can I make a device show up in a non-global zone?

2007-09-18 Thread Robert Thurlow
Edward Pilatowicz wrote: well, assuming that you're talking about a pseudo device with a static path, then check out: usr/src/lib/brand/native/zone/platform.xml which get's installed as /usr/lib/brand/native/platform.xml if your device doesn't have a static path then things

[zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Robert . Thurlow
Calum Mackay wrote: It sounds like we're saying that NFS is just a basic system service that we want to provide from our already existing - and independently-managed - zones, rather than setting up zones specifically to provide separate NFS services (with the various exceptions e.g. Jumpstart

[zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Robert . Thurlow
Tom Haynes wrote: What about the case where the customer wants to administer the zone they purchased and they do not want the global zone admins to have local access to their data? Well, there is a tradition in Zones of making the global zone substantially more equal than others. Remember

[zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Robert . Thurlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) A bug currently prevents a client instance and a server instance from being safe to use on the same box (apologies, can't quote the bugid from here). How likely, in your use case, is it that this will be a problem, i.e. will your boxes be in the position where a

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Robert Thurlow
On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Edward Pilatowicz wrote: i would refine your second point though because it doesn't take into account lofs mounts. ex, if i have /export/foo in the global zone and then in zonecfg i configure a filesystem resource such that this directory is also lofs mounted in

[zones-discuss] Re: [nfs-discuss] Re: [sysadmin-discuss] NFS server in zones

2007-02-14 Thread Robert Thurlow
Octave Orgeron wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Since NFS is mostly an in-kernel service, unlike something like Apache, if you have some kind of issue with NFS stability, you lose the whole box, not just the zone. This lack of fault isolation isn't always something that people are