[Samba] Samba Packages

Gaiseric Vandal
Mon, 09 Oct 2017 13:49:14 -0000

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
>
>