I am running Solaris 11, which includes samba 4.4.14. The packaging method has changed from Solaris 10, and you need a support contract to register the system for the latest version. I have no idea if Solaris 10 includes samba 4.x. I think to configure or rebuild Samba on Solaris 11 as an AD Directory Server/Domain controller would be difficult, since Solaris does not include the Heimdal version of Kerberos. Solaris 11 also includes its own SMB implementation, which I have not tried out yet, but is probably simple enough if you are configuring as a client. On 10/09/17 07:21, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:> On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:12:26 +0000 > "Mogane, Ratanang Johannes, Vodacom South Africa (External)" > <Ratanang.Mogane at vcontractor.co.za> wrote: > >> Hi Rowland, >> >> I would like Sparc Server to have SAMBA installed. I have a Windows >> platform that runs checks and calculates statistics but it requires >> data from Sparc server in order to do this. >> > Yes, but what do want to set the 'server' up as ? > You can set up Samba as a: > standalone server > NT4-style PDC (not recommended, at least by myself) > AD DC > Windows ADS client > > What version of Samba are the packages for ? > > What version of Windows are you connecting to ? > > Rowland >
On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 08:23:17 -0400 Gaiseric Vandal via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> I am running Solaris 11, which includes samba 4.4.14. The > packaging method has changed from Solaris 10, and you need a support > contract to register the system for the latest version. I have no > idea if Solaris 10 includes samba 4.x. > > I think to configure or rebuild Samba on Solaris 11 as an AD > Directory Server/Domain controller would be difficult, since Solaris > does not include the Heimdal version of Kerberos. Solaris 11 also > includes its own SMB implementation, which I have not tried out yet, > but is probably simple enough if you are configuring as a client. >The lack of Heimdal on Solaris shouldn't be a problem, Samba bundles it with the tarball and builds a DC with it by default. The main problem (as I see it) is that word 'Sparc', if Solaris 11 for Sparc includes 4.4.14, then if the OP just wants a client then he should go with this. If he wants a DC, then it gets sticky, does the filesystem support ACLs ? etc Rowland
I would guess that Solaris 11 for sparc has the same packages available as for Solaris 11. I would surprised if it doesn't. Compiling Samba on Solaris has always been a struggle for me. I wouldn't bother trying it, so I think it effectively rules out using Solaris as a Samba AD directory server. The nice thing about the precompiled version of Solaris (the one bundled with the OS) is that all the ZFS ACL modules are compiled in, and the correct kerberos and ldap client paths are compiled in. The nice thing about the precompiled version of Solaris (the one bundled with the OS) is that all the ZFS ACL modules are compiled in, and the correct kerberos and ldap client paths are compiled in. Solaris 11 supports ACL's assuming you are using the ZFS file system (which shd be the default with the possible exception of the root and var, depending on the solaris release that was installed.) The ZFS acl's are a not, I think, actually posix acl's, so sometimes the behavior between unix level and windows level permissions is not quite what you expect. I would avoid trying set permissions for multiple users and multiple groups- if you have a ProjectX folder you should have a corresponding ProjectX group. I am curious about what the Solaris Sparc software is? On 10/09/17 08:46, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:> On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 08:23:17 -0400 > Gaiseric Vandal via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > >> I am running Solaris 11, which includes samba 4.4.14. The >> packaging method has changed from Solaris 10, and you need a support >> contract to register the system for the latest version. I have no >> idea if Solaris 10 includes samba 4.x. >> >> I think to configure or rebuild Samba on Solaris 11 as an AD >> Directory Server/Domain controller would be difficult, since Solaris >> does not include the Heimdal version of Kerberos. Solaris 11 also >> includes its own SMB implementation, which I have not tried out yet, >> but is probably simple enough if you are configuring as a client. >> > The lack of Heimdal on Solaris shouldn't be a problem, Samba bundles it > with the tarball and builds a DC with it by default. > The main problem (as I see it) is that word 'Sparc', if Solaris 11 for > Sparc includes 4.4.14, then if the OP just wants a client then he > should go with this. If he wants a DC, then it gets sticky, does the > filesystem support ACLs ? etc > > Rowland > >
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Gaiseric Vandal via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> I am running Solaris 11, which includes samba 4.4.14. The packaging > method has changed from Solaris 10, and you need a support contract to > register the system for the latest version. I have no idea if Solaris 10 > includes samba 4.x.Given the shutdown of Sun Microsystems in 2010, and the lagging support for newer core libraries in Solaris, I think Rowland can *really* hurt himself trying to backport contemporary releases to Solaris. If you really need such a hobby, enjoy, but I anticipate a lot of difficulty backporting the dependencies to an operating system in the constant throws of rewriting the licenses. (I refer to Oracle's back and forth licensing on Solaris, *none* of with are a clear open source or free software license.)> I think to configure or rebuild Samba on Solaris 11 as an AD Directory > Server/Domain controller would be difficult, since Solaris does not include > the Heimdal version of Kerberos. Solaris 11 also includes its own SMB > implementation, which I have not tried out yet, but is probably simple > enough if you are configuring as a client.Right. I urge him not to do unnecessary work. I do see some packages at https://www.opencsw.org/package/samba/ that might be useful> On 10/09/17 07:21, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: >> >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 11:12:26 +0000 >> "Mogane, Ratanang Johannes, Vodacom South Africa (External)" >> <Ratanang.Mogane at vcontractor.co.za> wrote: >> >>> Hi Rowland, >>> >>> I would like Sparc Server to have SAMBA installed. I have a Windows >>> platform that runs checks and calculates statistics but it requires >>> data from Sparc server in order to do this. >>> >> Yes, but what do want to set the 'server' up as ? >> You can set up Samba as a: >> standalone server >> NT4-style PDC (not recommended, at least by myself) >> AD DC >> Windows ADS client >> >> What version of Samba are the packages for ? >> >> What version of Windows are you connecting to ? >> >> RowlandRowland, if possible, turn this around. Let the Solaris server mount CIFS from the Windows server and write to it, rather than trying to set up a server on an operating system that is akwward to support. I say this as one of the early publishers of Samba builds and tools for SunOS. As much as I liked SunOS as a server back in the day, it got..... weird out there after Solaris and the switch to AT&T style UNIX came along.
On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:32:30 -0400 Nico Kadel-Garcia via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Gaiseric Vandal via samba > <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > I am running Solaris 11, which includes samba 4.4.14. The > > packaging method has changed from Solaris 10, and you need a > > support contract to register the system for the latest version. I > > have no idea if Solaris 10 includes samba 4.x. > > Given the shutdown of Sun Microsystems in 2010, and the lagging > support for newer core libraries in Solaris, I think Rowland can > *really* hurt himself trying to backport contemporary releases to > Solaris. If you really need such a hobby, enjoy, but I anticipate a > lot of difficulty backporting the dependencies to an operating system > in the constant throws of rewriting the licenses. (I refer to Oracle's > back and forth licensing on Solaris, *none* of with are a clear open > source or free software license.)I am not the OP, I will not be trying to build Samba on Sparc, I just laid out the options for the OP. I did this because the OP never told us what he requires. I agree that building Samba on Solaris 11 is likely to be hard, if not impossible, but I will not be trying it, mainly because my Sparc boxes are languishing in the back of a cupboard.> Rowland, if possible, turn this around. Let the Solaris server mount > CIFS from the Windows server and write to it, rather than trying to > set up a server on an operating system that is akwward to support. >Do you want to point this at the OP and not me ;-)> I say this as one of the early publishers of Samba builds and tools > for SunOS. As much as I liked SunOS as a server back in the day, it > got..... weird out there after Solaris and the switch to AT&T style > UNIX came along. >Solaris always was a bit weird, especially if you were used to Linux. Rowland