OpenSolaris

Heads up - CIFS Client for Solaris

Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:02:26 -0700
From: Robert Thurlow <robert.thurlow at sun dot com>
To: on-all at eng dot sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads up - CIFS Client for Solaris

The putback of

     PSARC 2005/695 CIFS Client on Solaris
     PSARC 2007/303 pam_smb_login
     PSARC 2008/073 CIFS Client on Solaris - Updates
     6651904 CIFS Client

delivers a standard Solaris virtual file system which implements
a CIFS client, providing access to files and directories on CIFS
servers such as Microsoft Windows and Samba servers.

The Solaris CIFS client provides the ability for normal users to
mount remote CIFS server shares on a Solaris system, thereby
allowing ordinary Solaris applications to access CIFS files.

Information about the CIFS Client project, including documentation
and man pages can be found at

            http://opensolaris.org/os/project/smbfs/

You may discuss any details of the project by sending mail to our
OpenSolaris discussion alias:

           smbfs-discuss at opensolaris dot org

Bugs can be filed at the solaris/network/smbfs bugster category.

Using the CIFS client
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To view the shares on a CIFS server named samba3, try this:

% smbutil view -A //samba3
Share        Type       Comment
~-------------------------------
netlogon     disk       Network Logon Service
ipc$         IPC        IPC Service (Samba Server)
tmp          disk       Temporary file space
public       disk       Public Stuff

4 shares listed from 4 available

Mounting a share can be done without privilege if you own
the directory to be mounted on.  You will need to supply
a login name and password the CIFS server accepts, which
will not generally be related to your Unix identity:

% mount -F smbfs //joe@samba3/tmp /home/joe/mnt
Password:
% df /home/joe/mnt
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
//joe@samba/tmp      1977360    6136 1971224     1%    /home/joe/tmp

~-- The CIFS Client team.