Oh, I forgot one more thing. We also have old Windows 98 clients. Can NexentaStor setup to allow lanman auth for samba?

NexentaStor using its own in-kernel fast CIFS implementation. It would be interesting to figure out if we could make it work via LDAP. Certainly, it could work as AD Computer - which is LDAP based. But how to integrate LDAP with Workgroup mode?

Same problem here, i would REALLY love to have this feature...

I'm using a SAMBA domain with several SAMBA file servers and OpenLDAP , but i can't integrate successfully Nexentastor with even if LDAP users show up... it's a pity to see that it is possible with Windows AD !!

Can somebody provide an ETA for when this will be addressed (ballpark)?

I just went through a few weeks-worth of evenings and weekends setting up OpenLDAP on my home network solely for the purpose of using it with Nexenta CIFS. I need centralized user/group management - so also interested in hearing about alternatives, workarounds, etc.

Thanks

I'm relatively new here - is it normal to have these questions go unanswered for this long? Is there really a 'community' built around Nexenta? Is there someplace I should go for guidance?

Hi,

I'm quite new here too, but as long as i can see, the community is not very active, and it seems like there is a lack of "power users", i mean people with a good experience in Solaris / Nexenta. Anyway, the product is stable and effective, and the Solaris community is of good help for ZFS tuning/configuration and other Solaris features.

In fact, it seems that the community version is for people with good Solaris/NAS knowledge who does need minimal support, others will have to go to Enterprise version with payed support option.

Hi all. 1) For integrate samba with LDAP (f.e. openldap) you must remove kernel-cifs and install normal samba (and use smb.conf for ldap settings ). 2) With Windows AD you can "integrate" cifs-server but you must manualy add users for system and create id-maps (http://nexenta.com/corp/documentation/product-documentation "Windows Active Directory Integration User Guide" ) 3) Probably full LDAP-integration will be in next version of Nstor. Sorry for delay.

Thanks for the response!

I'm relatively comfortable with Solaris / ZFS - but because this is a custom kernel implementation of CIFS there isn't much I can really do. I figured the samba route was going to be the recommended workaround for the time being, I'll give that a shot.

What sort of timetables are you guys looking at for the next release of Nstore?

Thanks, Mike

Next release will be around June-July.

Thank you for your answers.

Does anyone have a write-up as to how to disable the kernel-cifs module? Or an updated timeframe for being able to use an OpenLDAP/SMB Domain Controller with a Nexenta share?