Refer to the freeware features within the book solaris 10 whats new to check if new features have been added to samba packaged with solaris. Pkg if you want to remove the samba from the solaris. Ok i am a total beginner with the solaris operating system and i need to install and configure samba on 3 boxes each has a different version of solaris 8,9,10. Using gnupg, simply download the samba source distribution, the tarball signature, and. I cant find what looks like a working installation of samba. Add the following line to the end of the solaris etcservices file. When properly configured, samba on solaris 8 supports dynamic views for windows clearcase clients this content is no longer being updated or maintained. The mounting of solaris 9 mapping drive on xp i was capable of doing. Well, my work machine is a sparc box running solaris 7 which i installed on it, it had an ancient sunos 4. This release is a bugfix release which contains a security fix to handle a nullpointer bug that turned up in rsyncs version of zlib 1. The configuration requires solaris samba, kerberos, and name service switch components be configured to achieve this. I am currently trying to install samba on solaris 9 x86 platform. Apr 14, 2014 how to set up samba for windowslinux file sharing. How to check samba is installed with solaris 9 or 10.
Earlier solaris 8, 9, 10 releases are available in our iso archives. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. I have solaris 9 installed with the latest patch cluster. At first the download of solarisx86 was bounded with a small fee and since december 2003 without charge. July 4, 2015 openssh update the openssh packages have been updated to version. If you have a solaris 10 system, the samba software is likely. I have been trying to get samba configured and while i can successfully connect via the smbclient utility and read and write files through it, i cannot mount the share via any of these commands. From running sun years ago i remember pkgget, so i gave that a go, but by default, at least on this box, pkgget used blastwave, which seems to has gone away. Anybody knows if we can mount using samba a file from xp on solaris 9. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
I have a small subnetwork running solaris 9 and i need to be able to have them write data to a windows network share. Part 7 of a series that describes the key features of zfs in oracle solaris 11. Installing and configuring samba oracle solaris cluster. Sun does include samba on the solaris companion cd for solaris 8 as an unsupported package which installs to optsfw and is vulnerable to this issue. With 48 harddisks, it has about 40 terrabytes of storage, not too shabby for a 4 rack unit box. It was based on solaris, which was originally released by sun in 1991.
Solaris 9 may already have samba installed to check run. I can see the dir usrlocal samba with all the files in, well i suppose that there are all its files in but, i cant see the file nf that, reading various help on the net should be in dir etc samba or etc. The solaris enterprise authentication mechanism server and client is included in the solaris 9 os to provide single signon capabilities for servers and applications. While im not sure where smb1 fits in my guess is core, here is the order of protocols from man nf max protocol g the value of the parameter a string is the highest protocol level that will be supported by the server. The samba distribution gpg public key can be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. Solaris 9 samba config hell ars technica openforum. Package names that are nonbold andor with no version number, are not currently available for this version of solaris. You can copy etcsfwnfexample to etcsfwnf if you need more features. Samba is already installed and configured with solaris 9 or 10 and included in the following packages sunwsmbac, sunwsmbar, sunwsmbau, and sunwsfman.
How to configure solaris samba to authenticate to and join a. Adding a new account while logged into the system from another account, rightclick somewhere on the desktop and choose hosts then terminal console. Solaris 8 and 9 sparc packages will be added shortly. Kerberosenabled versions of telnet, r commands, and more are available as a free download from the sun download center. I want to make my ultra 5 workstation into a samba server. Solaris 10 comes preloaded with samba so there is no need to obtain any packages. Companion cd packages are also available via the unix packages website, including the latest versions built for solaris 10 update 11 for sparc and x86. For debian packages, you can also get the pgp signature for the latest version, so that you can verify the package with the command gpg verify.
Many free and commercial sw packages are developed and available on it. This only affected a source right at the root of the filesystem, such as or if you first cd and then copy from. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. This has been updated and expanded to 110 packages see solaris 10 u11 companion cddvd. The programs were ported to all versions of solaris from 2. If you dont already have it on your system, you can download it from samba opening windows to a wider world. But, the only reference i can find to samba on this system is the nfexample file. How to check samba is installed with solaris 9 or 10 sun. The compatibility was improved to linux in solaris 9, standard libraries for linux applications are installed now too. This article focuses on sharing zfs file systems using the smb protocol. Im new to solaris but have a fresh install of solaris 9 404 release. Configuring samba on solaris 9 catatankerjas weblog. In this posting im starting out with a newly installed zone. Tools to authenticate users from active directory using winbind.
Opensolaris uses a networkbased package management system image packaging system pkg5, which could add, remove, and manage installed software. Support for packages has been discontinued on sunfreeware. Open source freeware applications for sun solaris unix packages. Please visit our new website unix packages provides full package support for all levels of solaris from 2. Refer to the freeware features within the book solaris 10 whats new to check if new features have been added to samba packaged with solaris 10. Old releases are available in the samba archives the samba distribution gpg public key can be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. For example, if you are running microsoft windows 7, you can search for zfs shares by clicking the windows start icon and typing \\192. Install sambas swat on solaris swat provides a graphical interface for configuring samba. I want to make a directory on a solaris 9 server able to be seen, mapped to, read from and written to by windows clients on the network without worrying at. How to configure solaris samba to authenticate to and join. Any input about this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Bind update the bind packages have been updated to version 9. The only tool that i have is smbclient, but this gives me ftpish like only. July 9, 2015 openssl security alert update the openssl packages have been updated to versions 1. Check the package information to verify that samba. I thought from what i read that this would install samba too. The download of the sparc variant was possible at first, the x86 variant followed later. The mounting of solaris9 mapping drive on xp i was capable of doing. Solaris 7 and solaris 8 do not include the samba software and are not affected by this issues. See alternative chains certificate forgery cve20151793. This explanation was written specifically for sharing files from a xerox docusp system, but is generally applicable to setting up samba on any sun solaris 10 system. The compatibility was improved to linux in solaris 9, standard libraries for.
The document will provide examples of a configuration and steps that need to be taken to join the solaris 10 or solaris 11 samba server to the domain and authenticate users via ads. Of course digging in and actually doing stuff in solaris is not as much fun as linux, but we needed to get samba running on this montster to give us some breathing room for our storage. Samba is standard on nearly all distributions of linux and is commonly included as a basic system service on other unixbased operating systems as well. Its useful to create a directory on the solaris system that is fully shareable on the local network so that windows systems can read files from the solaris system and write files to it. Heres how to build, install and integrate samba4 into solaris 11. Oracle solaris 11 allows us to share a zfs file system using the server message. If you need to share files between a windows and a unix or linux system, you can use samba, which is free software that implements the same networking protocol that microsoft windows use to share files between systems. Oct 29, 2008 i learn how to configure samba using swat. The pgp signature for the latest targzip version of webmin is also available so that you can verify the tar. It is a bugfix release that mainly fixes a bug with the relative option r in 2. Be advised that the packages on unix packages are only available through a paid subscription service, as this new site is not. However, popular packages are updated frequently and by subscriber request, more up to date packages may be also be present for other versions of solaris. I compiled the latest release of samba on a solaris 5.
If you need to go back to the previous version type. I created my share but when i try to get to my share from my windows machine, it prompts me for my username and passwd, i enter it and it just comes back prompting me for my username and passwd agai. Anybody knows if we can mount using samba a file from xp on solaris9. If i added a new thread and another similar question was already posted i apologized, i searched with keywords samba and installing samba but the threads about it was locked, and the previous answer didnt really answer. Mount a windows network share in solaris 9 solutions. Samba runs on most unix, openvms and unixlike systems, such as linux, solaris, aix and the bsd variants, including apples macos server, and macos client mac os x 10. At work weve had an oldish sun fire x4500 aka thumper, that has been under utilized. I can see the dir usrlocalsamba with all the files in, well i suppose that there are all its files in but, i cant see the file nf that, reading various help on the net should be in dir etcsamba or etc. What i want to know location of samba configuration file i. Install samba s swat on solaris swat provides a graphical interface for configuring samba. Resolution this issue is addressed in the following releases. Solaris 10 807 u4 added samba active directory support, ip instances part of the opensolaris network virtualization and resource control project, iscsi target support and solaris containers for linux applications based on branded zones, enhanced version of the resource capping daemon rcapd.
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