What's New With Solaris CIFS
From Genunix
This document describes the Solaris CIFS-related feature additions and changes that have been introduced since the Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 release and Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) Build 79a.
For comprehensive information about the bug fixes and requests for enhancement (RFEs) that have integrated into ON for SXCE since build 60, go to the OpenSolaris ON Downloads page. Build links are of the form bnn where nn is the build number, such as b87 for build 87. From any of the build pages, click Full HTML Changelog or Sparse Text Changelog to view build-specific information.
For more information about Solaris CIFS, see the following pages:
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Known Limitations
- Do not use SXCE Build 93 for Solaris CIFS due to known problems; the issues are expected to be resolved in SXCE Build 94
- Only Active Directory domains are supported
- Backup and restore privileges are disabled (CR 6593958)
Troubleshooting Tip
Use the cifs-gendiag.sh script to generate helpful troubleshooting information about your Solaris CIFS environment.
You must run this command as superuser or an appropriate role.
You can include output from this command when you report a problem to the mailto:cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org discussion list.
Download the cifs-gendiag.sh script.
New Features for SXCE Build 90
- System-wide coordinated byte-range locking (CRs 6674636, 6679147, and 6695540)
- Native LDAP and mixed mode directory-based mapping (CR 6591398)
New Features for SXCE Build 88
- Identity mapping observability (CR 6621272)
New Features for SXCE Build 86
- Directory-based mapping with Active Directory (CR 6642928)
New Features for SXCE Build 84
New Features for SXCE Build 81
- Local groups (CR 6629954)
- Coordinated, system-wide share reservations (CR 6641051)
- Diagonal identity mapping (CR 6607916)
