zfs discuss - Dec 2008 - ZFS filesystem and CIFS permissions issue?

I''m having a permission issue with a ZFS fs over CIFS. I''m new
to OpenSolaris, and fairly new to *nix (only real experience being OS X), so any
help would be appreciated.

Ok, here''s the problem: I have a zfs fs (rpool/storage) with numerous
child filesystems (rpool/storage/backup, rpool/storage/software, etc.). My main
user, jwaddell:staff, can browse and create folders in any filesystem without
any problem when logged into the desktop. However, when I login via CIFS with
the same user from a different machine, I can only view/edit files and
directories in the rpool/storage fs. All child filesystems appear empty through
cifs, and when I try to copy a file or create folders, I get permission denied
errors. I have chmod -R 777 on rpool/storage, and chown -R jwaddell on
rpool/storage. When running ls -l, permissions seem to be correct (output
below), so I can''t figure it out. If I destroy and recreate the child
filesystems, the same thing happens. On a possibly related note, when I try to
delete a file/directory in one of the child filesystems from the desktop, I get
a "Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately. Unable to
trash file: No such file or directory" error," but trashing a file
anywhere else on the system (such as my home folder) works fine. Perhaps this is
related to whatever permissions issues are going on. Any help would be
appreciated! Thanks!

jwaddell at opensolaris:/rpool$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root   3 2008-12-25 02:44 boot
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root   3 2008-12-25 03:00 etc
drwxrwxrwx 10 jwaddell staff 24 2008-12-25 13:16 storage

jwaddell at opensolaris:/rpool$ ls -l storage
drwxrwxrwx 3 jwaddell staff      2 2008-12-25 03:47 backup
drwxrwxrwx 3 jwaddell staff      2 2008-12-25 03:47 movies
drwxrwxrwx 3 jwaddell staff      2 2008-12-25 01:54 music
drwxrwxrwx 3 jwaddell staff      2 2008-12-25 03:48 pictures
drwxrwxrwx 3 jwaddell staff      2 2008-12-25 03:48 software
drwxrwxrwx 2 jwaddell staff      2 2008-12-25 12:57 test (this is not a fs, and
is browsable)

jwaddell at opensolaris:/rpool/storage$ ls -l backup (These folders do not show
up when browsing via CIFS)
drwxrwxrwx 2 jwaddell staff 2 2008-12-25 13:24 Archive
drwxrwxrwx 2 jwaddell staff 2 2008-12-25 13:24 Test
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Jeff Waddell wrote:
> I''m having a permission issue with a ZFS fs over CIFS.
I''m new to
 > OpenSolaris, and fairly new to *nix (only real experience being OS
 > X), so any help would be appreciated.

Sounds like you''re falling foul as I did when I started.

Child filesystems are not accessible via cifs as child filesystems.

If I have

tank/backup
tank/backup/exodus

And share tank/backup via cifs, it will show the exodus folder, but it 
won''t let you do anything with it. It has been explained better but
I''m
not in a position to find the reference. For now, you just can''t.

To access those child filesystems, you will have to share them 
individually. It''s a pain, but thats how I have to do it atm.

HTH

Matt