What's New With Solaris CIFS

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This document describes the Solaris CIFS-related feature additions and changes that have been introduced since the Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 release and Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) Build 79a.

For comprehensive information about the bug fixes and requests for enhancement (RFEs) that have integrated into ON for SXCE since build 60, go to the OpenSolaris ON Downloads page. Build links are of the form bnn where nn is the build number, such as b87 for build 87. From any of the build pages, click Full HTML Changelog or Sparse Text Changelog to view build-specific information.

For more information about Solaris CIFS, see the following pages:

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Known Limitations

  • Do not use OpenSolaris 2009.06 for Solaris CIFS due to known problems (CRs 6831172 and 6831734); these issues have been resolved in SXCE Build 114
  • Do not use SXCE Build 108 for Solaris CIFS due to known share access problems (CRs 6800211 and 6800942)
  • Do not use SXCE Build 93 for Solaris CIFS due to known problems; the issues are expected to be resolved in SXCE Build 94
  • Only Active Directory domains are supported

Troubleshooting Tips

  • Use the cifs-chkcfg script to verify the system's Solaris CIFS service configuration. The script reports configuration errors. If the script reports no errors, your configuration should be okay.

    NOTE: The cifs-chkcfg script does not currently verify Kerberos configuration.

    You must run this command as superuser or an appropriate role.

    Download the cifs-chkcfg script.

  • Use the cifs-gendiag script to generate helpful troubleshooting information about your Solaris CIFS environment.

    You must run this command as superuser or an appropriate role.

    You can include output from this command when you report a problem to the [1] discussion list.

    Download the cifs-gendiag script.

New Features for SXCE Build 120

New Features for SXCE Build 118

  • Support for Guest Access.

  • Support for Share Connect/Disconnect Scripts (6766364).

  • Support for (cygwin) Hard Links (6851425).

New Features for SXCE Build 109

New Features for SXCE Build 106

  • Support for Shadow Copies for Shared Folders (VSS) feature (CR 6627645), which provides read-only access to files and folders in existing ZFS snapshots. ZFS snapshots cannot be created or deleted via VSS.

    Access to VSS is via the Previous Version tab in the Properties window of a file or folder. No CIFS service configuration is required.

    See the blog entry about using the previous version tab.

    For those using Windows XP or Windows 2000 (at least SP3), the Shadow Copy client is available as a download from Microsoft.

  • Support to add, remove and list shares via Computer Manager/srvmgr (CR 6559601). Note that share-ACLs are still in development.

  • Support client-side caching options on smbautohome shares (CR 6786072). For configuration details, see Client-Side Caching for Offline Files.

New Features for SXCE Build 94

  • The Solaris CIFS client presents Windows named streams as Solaris extended attributes (CR 6668593 & 6720550)

New Features for SXCE Build 90

  • System-wide coordinated byte-range locking (CRs 6674636, 6679147, and 6695540)
  • Native LDAP and mixed mode directory-based mapping (CR 6591398)

New Features for SXCE Build 88

  • Identity mapping observability (CR 6621272)

New Features for SXCE Build 86

  • Directory-based mapping with Active Directory (CR 6642928)

New Features for SXCE Build 84

New Features for SXCE Build 81

  • Local groups (CR 6629954)
  • Coordinated, system-wide share reservations (CR 6641051)
  • Diagonal identity mapping (CR 6607916)
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