Solaris CIFS Service

This file system enhancement is new in the Developer 1/08 release.

The Solaris CIFS service provides a native, well-integrated CIFS service to support Windows, MacOS, and other CIFS clients. This service offers ubiquitous access to files that are shared between CIFS and NFS clients. The Solaris CIFS server can act as a member server within an Active Directory domain. The Solaris CIFS service provides file system access to Windows and Mac OS clients through CIFS shares with support for both local and Active Directory domain authentication.

Similar to NFS, CIFS provides network file system services. CIFS also provides services, such as network transport for sub-protocols like named pipes, MS-RPC services, and interfaces to core Windows functionality.

For more information, see the following:

• Solaris CIFS Administration Guide

• smbadm(1M), smbd(1M), smbstat(1M), and smbautohome(4), smbd(1M), and pam_smb_passwd(5) man pages.