Managing SMB File Sharing and Windows Interoperability in Oracle Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

SMB Support for the Distributed File System

The Distributed File System (DFS) feature is supported by the SMB server. For more information, see the Microsoft DFS documentation.

Currently, the SMB server supports only one stand-alone DFS namespace per system. Prior to creating a stand-alone DFS namespace from a Windows system, you must create an SMB share for the root of the namespace on the Oracle Solaris SMB server. The SMB server sets the dfsroot property to enable the DFS root support on the SMB share when you configure the namespace. The SMB server disables the DFS root support when you delete the namespace.

You can use the DFS tools that are available on Windows systems to create and manage the stand-alone namespace in the Oracle Solaris OS.