On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've got a CentOS / RHEL (5.x) environment and am in the process of > migrating the 5.3 file server over to an Oracle/Sun 7120 appliance. > > I want to keep my main 5.3 server as our NIS server but am moving NFS > and Samba functions over to the appliance. > > NFS was a no brainer as one can imagine. Samba seems a bit trickier > because of the authentication requirements in the ZFS server. They > seem to want a domain controller which we don't have. > > Has anyone been here recently and can help with how to config the > appliance for Samba but to authenticate from NIS ? > > thanks, > -Alan > > -- > > I don't know that particular NAS, but does it allow you to setup an anonymous SMB user? If not, then setup a normal SMB share on the NAS and mount it on the CentOS server, then rsync the data across -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532