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OpenSolaris Project: CIFS Server

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Introduction

The goal of this project is to provide a native, integrated CIFS implementation to support OpenSolaris as a storage operating system. The OpenSolaris CIFS Server provides support for the CIFS/SMB LM 0.12 protocol and MSRPC services in workgroup and domain mode. Substantial work has already gone into modifying and adapting the existing OpenSolaris file system interfaces, services and commands to accommodate Windows attributes and file sharing semantics. The intent is to provide ubiquitous, cross-protocol file sharing in Windows and/or Solaris environments.

The Solaris CIFS service was integrated into ONNV Build 77 and provides CIFS file sharing services for the Solaris OS in workgroup or domain mode. Sun is releasing this functionality to engage the OpenSolaris community by giving the community an opportunity to learn about the code, contribute to its further development and test. As a consequence of this early release, users might encounter some known issues and limitations that are described in the "ONNV Flag Days, Heads-Ups and Project Integration History" on the OS/Net Community Page.

Related Projects

• CIFS Client (OS/Net community)
• Winchester: Schema mapping and ID mapping for AD Interoperability (Security community)

Source code

The source tarball can be downloaded via: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current

Announcements

26 Oct 2007

Heads Up: Flag Day (CIFS Service)

Blogs

bobp - It's Getting Rather Cloudy Out There...

Jan 7, 6:38 AM

Happy New Year.  2009 appears to be a busy year for clouds .  Virtualization has added several players since VMware momentum appeared a few years ago.  One can now select from an array of h ...

bobp - OpenSolaris 2008.11 is here

Dec 10, 4:55 AM

The latest release of OpenSolaris (2008.11) just posted a few weeks ago.   As we discussed in Brasil it is so easy to get and so easy to kick the tires using Virtual Box .  The community has been ...

Alan Wright - CIFS Service Documentation, Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

Dec 4, 2:43 PM

One of our design goals was to make it easy to use the Solaris CIFS service but operating system interoperability can be a bewilderingly large subject area and it's always useful to have references ...

bobp - A new Networked Appliance is the Appliance Appliance for Storage and IT

Nov 10, 7:18 AM

Going against the establishment or trying to redefine standards in an industry is always hard.  While believers encourage you the industry critics are happy to knock you down.  For the critics as ...

Alan Wright - OpenSolaris CIFS Service at the Storage Developer Conference

Nov 7, 7:05 PM

The native OpenSolaris CIFS Service has been out there for about a year and things seem to be going well. We have an active community on OpenSolaris.org, with discussion on cifs-discuss, and the ...