I'm not too familiar with the issue but Solaris PC NetLink is free and does some neat things:
Solaris PC NetLink (based on AT&T Advanced Server for Unix) delivers native Windows NT network services--which include directory, authentication, and file-and-print services--on Solaris servers. Users continue to receive the full functionality of the services exactly as if they were running on a Windows NT server. This way users get more access to their files and data.
Specifically, PC NetLink provides the following native NT networking services on Solaris servers:
A complete implementation of Windows NT 4.0 Server Directory (PDC/BDC - NTDS) on Solaris Security and authentication (SAM/SID) NetBIOS and WINS Network browser File and print (NTFS) Service Pack compliant
http://www.sun.com/interoperability/netlink/
-JV
At 07:58 AM 12/13/01 -0600, you wrote:
I know that Linux can mount up a ntfs cifs share on a filer using smbmount - is there anything out there that one can use for Solaris? looking for ways to mount up our nt file shares on Solaris 8 boxes. sun had a product for mounting up nt boxes (solstice nfs). this required the nfs client to be running on the nt side. anyone aware of anything else?
I'm not too familiar with the issue but Solaris PC NetLink is free and does some neat things:
Unfortunately, it appears that one of the things it does *not* do is let you mount CIFS on Solaris. It may let you mount CIFS *from* Solaris - which is also what Samba does - but that's another matter.
Neither Solaris PC NetLink nor Samba provide what the original poster wanted; they're for people who want to make their UNIX box (or VMS box, in the case of Samba) a CIFS *server*, not a CIFS *client*. The original poster wanted to make his Solaris box a CIFS client, not a CIFS server.
Samba does provide "smbclient", but that's a command-line SMB client with a user interface like that of the "ftp" command, not a VFS that allows you to transparently access file systems on CIFS servers the way the Solaris NFS client VFS lets you transparently access file systems on NFS servers.
Sharity, from Objective Development:
is, I suspect, a "user-mode file system" (i.e., an NFS server, perhaps running on a port other than the standard 2049) that acts as an NFS client; this is the closest thing to a VFS that runs in user mode, and it has the advantage that it can run on a large number of OSes. (It's somewhat amusing, though, that the Sharity page:
http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/index.html
specifically cites MacOS X, Linux, and FreeBSD, given that those are the three UNIXes I know of that have a *native* SMB client VFS and that therefore, in their current versions, don't *need* Sharity...).
Sharity-Light:
http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity-light/index.html
is a "user-mode file system" of that sort, based on an "outdated version of smbfs for Linux"; it's free, but, as they note, it's based on an older version, and they're not doing any enhancements to it.
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Guy Harris -
JV