[cifs-discuss] How to share windows folder in sun solaris

[Ross]

It sounds like you've got things a little confused.  Firstly, Samba won't help you, that's a program to make files on a Sun server visible to Windows, not the other way around.

nfsAxe should work, I've played with that and Omni-NFS in the past, both took a bit of fiddling about with permissions and path names though because I wasn't too familiar with the differences between Windows and Unix shares.  It's been a while since I used either program, but I remember it being pretty straightforward once I worked it out.

However, what you might find works better is to download Microsoft's "Services for Unix".  This is their official NFS server for windows and it's a free download:
http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=896C9688-601B-44F1-81A4-02878FF11778&displaylang=en

You'll find it's well documented and pretty easy to get going.  You'll need to copy your passwd and group files to your windows server so you can authenticate your Solaris users, and I've found it's a good idea to restart the service each time you create a NFS share.

I used this post to set Microsoft's NFS server up for VMware, I would expect that you can follow most of the insructions in here for Solaris access too:
http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_Windows_Services_For_UNIX_%28SFU%29_NFS

Once you've set up the NFS server, if you can't get mount working on your solaris box, have a look at /var/adm/messages (just type cat /var/adm/messages).  I believe that is where you'll find any errors (although I'm a windows admin too, so not 100% on this solaris stuff).

Ross
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