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Wednesday May 18, 2005

Solaris 10 Data Management

Time for me to jump into the blog pool too.

I'm a Senior Software Engineering Manager in the Solaris Data organization, responsible for file system and file sharing technologies in Solaris. My areas of focus are NFS and Samba. I previously managed UFS through Solaris 10.

To get a taste of what we've done in Solaris 10, check out:

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/data_management.jsp

We delivered NFSv4, and made great strides in performance and availability in UFS.

We also co-deliver Samba with Solaris, supporting Samba on our companion CD. We stay current with what the Samba community is doing, and ensure Samba on Solaris is a viable solution for our customers requiring CIFS interoperability.

Posted at 11:36AM May 18, 2005 by Don Traub in General  |  Comments[4]

Comments:

Welcome aboard!

I'm curious, how much code is developed ontop of Samba and how much is contributed back? Will Samba now take a backseat to Tantella? How do you see the future of NFSv4 as people slowly migrate existing NFSv3 enviroments over? Any good NFS/SMB tips from the expert?

Its really awesome to have more Solaris storage guys blogging, I look forward to your future posts.

Posted by benr on May 18, 2005 at 12:30 PM MDT #

...and ensure Samba on Solaris is a viable solution for our customers requiring CIFS interoperability.

In a somewhat limited fashion until you have support to mount SMB shares as well :(

Posted by Shawn Walker on May 20, 2005 at 09:19 AM MDT #

Dan, with the Sun bundled Samba v2.2.X in Solaris 9, it was possible to operate with "security = domain" in smb.conf. This allowed authentication to be passed along to a Windows domain controller. In the Solaris 10 version based off of 3.0.X, the same functionality is not present due to the lack of the "net" command which is used to setup the machine account. In 2.2.X the "smbpasswd" command was used to do this. It's not clear to me why the "net" command was not included. ( maybe it wasn't included because this command also supports Active Directory integration which wasn't implemented either ) The lack of ADS support ( "security = ads" ) and the "net" command effectively prevents the use of the Sun bundled samba in a large scale environment that has an already existing Windows directory service in place. The easiest fix for this would be to have a patch issued that includes the "net" command. This is not in conflict with the position of not integrating Active Directory support. If the user attempts to run "net ads subcommand" they will be greeted with the message "ADS support not compiled in"

Posted by 68.42.137.94 on July 08, 2005 at 01:04 PM MDT #

Apologies, last comment directed to Don, not Dan!

Posted by 68.42.137.94 on July 08, 2005 at 02:08 PM MDT #

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