Solaris CIFS Service

The Samba and CIFS services cannot be used simultaneously on a single Solaris system. The Samba service must be disabled in order to run the Solaris CIFS service. For more information, see How to Disable the Samba Service.

For a high-level overview of configuring the Solaris CIFS service, see Configuring the Solaris CIFS Service – Process Overview. For information about configuring the service, see Chapter 3, Solaris CIFS Service Administration (Tasks). For more information about the Solaris CIFS service, see the smbadm(1M), smbd(1M), smbstat(1M), smb(4), smbautohome(4), and pam_smb_passwd(5) man pages.

The CIFS features offered by the Solaris service depend on the file system being shared. To fully support the Solaris CIFS service, a file system should support the following features:

• If the file system supports the archive, hidden, read-only, and system attributes, these attributes are made available as the DOS attributes available on Windows systems. The ZFS file system supports these attributes.

• If the file system supports Solaris extended attributes, they are made available as NTFS alternate data streams.

• The case-sensitivity capabilities of the file system are made available to CIFS clients. To support both Windows-style access and POSIX access, a file system should support mixed-mode, which is simultaneous support for case-sensitive and case-insensitive name operations.

  The Solaris OS supports both the NFS and CIFS protocols, which have different expectations regarding case behavior. For instance, Windows clients typically expect case-insensitive behavior while local applications and NFS clients typically expect case-sensitive behavior. The ZFS file system supports three case modes: case-sensitive, case-insensitive, and mixed. The ZFS file system can indicate case conflicts when in mixed mode. Mixed mode is recommended for maximum multi-protocol compatibility.

• To provide full Windows access control list (ACL) support, file systems should be able to store SIDs and they should at least support NFSv4 ACLs.

For information about the supported features of the UFS and ZFS file systems, see the ufs(7FS) man page and the Solaris ZFS Administration Guide, respectively.

For information about how to access CIFS shares from your client, refer to the client documentation.