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It's not about who implements an SMB server (it's a separate layered filesystem, smbfs, on Solaris, not ZFS itself) but about the convenience of doing only:

  # zfs set sharesmb=on export/home
and configuring access just by setting (with chmod) the Windows compatible ACLs on the ZFS filesystem itself. Authentication can also work as expected in a Windows shop. Doing all this in Samba is a PITA.


Has anyone tried to use Samba4's Active Directory implementation with Illumos ZFS SMB support (ie, without Samba's SMB implementation) ?


No, why would they? It's not needed, a Solaris server can join a Windows Active Directory domain.


I think zdw is asking if Samba can be the Active Directory controller while using the ZFS SMB stack.


Exactly - if it worked, it would be a solid Windows server replacement for storage focused deployments.


win compatible acls are incompatible to posix acls. that's hard to argue away.


ZFS has NT ACLs, not POSIX ACLs.




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