zfs discuss - Dec 2006 - Advice Wanted - sharing across multiple non global zones

Hi..
After searching hi & low, I cannot find the answer for what I want to do (or
at least
understand how to do it). I am hopeful somebody can point me in the right
direction.
I have (2) non global zones (samba & www) I want to be able to have all user
home
dir''s served from zone samba AND be visable under zone www as the users
public_html
dir. I have looked at delegating a dataset to samba and creating a new fs for
each user but then I cannot share that with www. I also tried creating the fs
under the global zone and mounting that via lofs but that did not seem to carry
over each underlying fs and lost the quota capability. I cannot share via NFS
since non global
zones cannot mount from the same server.

How can I achieve what I want to do?

The requirements are:

User Quotas (needs a file system for each user)
Share file systems across multiple non global zones (rw)

I have close to 3000 users so it must be a manageable approach and hopefully
allow me to use the root preexec of samba to auto create user dir''s.

tia for any help,

Daren
 
 
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> Hi..
> After searching hi & low, I cannot find the answer
> for what I want to do (or at least
> understand how to do it). I am hopeful somebody can
> point me in the right direction.
> I have (2) non global zones (samba & www) I want to
> be able to have all user home
> dir''s served from zone samba AND be visable under
> zone www as the users public_html
> dir. I have looked at delegating a dataset to samba
> and creating a new fs for each user but then I cannot
> share that with www. I also tried creating the fs
> under the global zone and mounting that via lofs but
> that did not seem to carry over each underlying fs
> and lost the quota capability. I cannot share via NFS
> since non global
> zones cannot mount from the same server.
>
> How can I achieve what I want to do?
>
> The requirements are:
>
> User Quotas (needs a file system for each user)
> Share file systems across multiple non global zones
> (rw)
>
> I have close to 3000 users so it must be a manageable
> approach and hopefully
> allow me to use the root preexec of samba to auto
> create user dir''s.
Have a peek at this page: 
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/s10securityhowto.jsp  I believe
it may give you some insights to your final objective.


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