We are looking for another solution besides Samba, which will allow our application developers using Windows 95/98/NT to access share on our Sun Box running Solaris 2.6 operating systems. Our supervisor feels the Samba installation process is more complex than what we really need. Any suggestions? Steven Hawks NCR Corporation IT Services - GAD Sales and Business Infrastructure * 1529 Brown St., EMD/4, Dayton, Oh 45479 * * (937) 445-3946, fax 445-0375, voiceplus 622-3946 * SH151002@ncr.com
"Hawks, Steven L" wrote:> > We are looking for another solution besides Samba, which will allow our > application developers using Windows 95/98/NT to access share on our Sun Box > running Solaris 2.6 operating systems. Our supervisor feels the Samba > installation process is more complex than what we really need.Well, you could just simplify the installation! Make a tar image of a minimal member server, rooted at /, so that you have the /etc/rc3.d/sXXsamba.server startup files plus all the binaries and config stuff, all with proper permissions. This should make installations trivial: it's a variant on how .pkg files work. In principle, you untar on the target machine, start swat on your admin machine pointed at the target machine, apply machine-specific changes and disconnect. About 10 minutes total. --dave [sp: samba-docs is the document maintainer list] -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify some people 185 Ellerslie Ave., | and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Willowdale, Ontario | //www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/author.html Work: (905) 415-2849 Home: (416) 223-8968 Email: davecb@canada.sun.com
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:16:22AM +1000, Hawks, Steven L wrote:> We are looking for another solution besides Samba, which will allow our > application developers using Windows 95/98/NT to access share on our Sun Box > running Solaris 2.6 operating systems. Our supervisor feels the Samba > installation process is more complex than what we really need.> Any suggestions?Contact Sun. Seems like they have one or two options there. I can't say that they are easier to install or configure, but I can say that they will be more expensive. Will that make your supervisor happier? I think one of the solutions available from Sun is the Syntax SMB server, TAS. You can get more information on that one up at their site, www.syntax.com. I haven't found Samba to be particularly difficult to install or configure. In fact, I've seen some of our NT "gurus" go through a more painfull process just getting an NT server running on an SMP box (took them over 4 hours) while RedHat Linux and Samba dropped in like a charm.> Steven Hawks > NCR Corporation > IT Services - GAD Sales and Business Infrastructure > * 1529 Brown St., EMD/4, Dayton, Oh 45479 > * * (937) 445-3946, fax 445-0375, voiceplus 622-3946 > * SH151002@ncr.comMike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@WittsEnd.com (The Mad Wizard) | (770) 331-2437 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
Steven, I don't know of any other solution besides Samba. I'm running my installation on Solaris 2.6, and the installation was not that difficult. I purchased the O'Reilly book "Using Samba", and followed the installation instructions. It took me all of 2 hours to get things up and running. Most of that was waiting for that compiler to finish After that, I spent the next day setting up my current configuration. Since then I have continued to tweak the smb.conf file as I learn. I do wonder. Does your supervisor have other motives for not wanting Samba? -Jim ************************************************* Jim Kreuziger Systems Manager UCI Autism Research Project jkreuzig@uci.edu ************************************************* On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Hawks, Steven L wrote:> We are looking for another solution besides Samba, which will allow our > application developers using Windows 95/98/NT to access share on our Sun Box > running Solaris 2.6 operating systems. Our supervisor feels the Samba > installation process is more complex than what we really need. > > Any suggestions? > > Steven Hawks > NCR Corporation > IT Services - GAD Sales and Business Infrastructure > * 1529 Brown St., EMD/4, Dayton, Oh 45479 > * * (937) 445-3946, fax 445-0375, voiceplus 622-3946 > * SH151002@ncr.com > > >