[indiana-discuss] Samba (SUNWsmbs) in non-global zone on 2008.05

[Mike Gerdts]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Greg <opensolaris-forums at noogies.org> wrote:
> I though this may be the issue with sys_smb privilege required to
> run in a zone, so I've added 'set limitpriv=default,sys_smb' to my
> zone configuration and rebooted it. Samba still will not start.
>
> Trying to run the smbd process manually gives
> # /usr/lib/smbsrv/smbd start
> smbd: non-global zones are not supported

This is the in-kernel CIFS server, not Samba.  Much like NFS serving,
the in-kernel CIFS server only works in the global zone.

Samba (pfexec pkg install SUNWsmba) should work in a non-global zone.

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Mike Gerdts
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