5 Samba Services and zfs:

Start the service:

root@server1:/# svcadm enable -r smb/server

If the following warning is issued, you can ignore it:

svcadm: svc:/milestone/network depends on svc:/network/physical, which has multiple instances

Set the workgroup name:

root@server1:/# smbadm join -w SHARING

After joining SHARING the smb service will be restarted automatically.
Would you like to continue? [no]: yes
Successfully joined SHARING

Great. Now we can enable shares for the users. User share rights in this setup are directly related to unix file permission settings. If I share /export/home/newuser then I must connect as newuser because ownership of that directory is newuser:newuser. Let's set up a share. First, the directory we create this share on needs to be empty. If we are sharing the whole of a user's directory (and not a folder in it) we need to move files in the directory out:

root@server1:/# mkdir /opt/tmp/
root@server1:/# mv /export/home/newuser/* /opt/tmp/; mv /export/home/newuser/.* /opt/tmp/

Verify the files all moved:

root@server1:/# ls -lha /export/home/newuser/; ls -lha /opt/tmp/

total 3.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 newuser newuser 2 Apr 22 15:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root    root    4 Apr 22 15:16 ..
total 9.5K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root       8 Apr 22 15:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root    sys        3 Apr 22 15:50 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 newuser newuser  220 Apr 22 15:16 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 newuser newuser 2.9K Apr 22 15:16 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 newuser newuser  964 Apr 22 15:16 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 newuser newuser 1.1K Apr 22 15:16 local.cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 newuser newuser  988 Apr 22 15:16 local.login
-rw-r--r-- 1 newuser newuser 1002 Apr 22 15:16 local.profile

Ok, let's create the zpool and share it:

root@server1:/# zfs create -o compression=gzip-9 -o dedup=on -o quota=100g -o casesensitivity=mixed -o nbmand=on -o sharesmb=on pool1/newuser

Let's talk about some of the triggers in that command. The trigger "-o dedup=on" sets deduplication on allowing multiple instances of the same file to only have to exist one time. From a filesystem user perspective you'll not notice this, however it can save a lot of space. The trigger "-o compression=gzip-9" sets the filesystem compression to use the gzip libraries and sets it to maximum compression, or 9. 1 is lowest, 9 is highest. These settings may impact performance on heavy writes to disk. You should consider how fast your disks are and how powerful your processor and ram are before enabling these settings. The trigger "-o quota=100g" sets the user's home directory to grow no more than 100g. This setting is optional, but handy to know.

Move the files back:

mv /opt/tmp/* /export/home/newuser/; mv /opt/tmp/.* /export/home/newuser/

Verify the pool:

root@server1:/# zpool list

NAME      SIZE  ALLOC   FREE    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
pool1    3.97T   239K  3.97T     0%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
syspool   127G  1.31G   126G     1%  1.00x  ONLINE  -

root@server1:/# zfs list

NAME                     USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
pool1                    136K  3.91T    31K  /export/home
pool1/newuser             21K  3.91T    21K  /export/home/newuser
syspool                 2.34G   123G    26K  none
syspool/rootfs-nmu-000  1.31G   123G  1007M  legacy
syspool/swap            1.03G   124G    16K  -

Verify the share is up:

root@server1:/# sharemgr show -vp

default nfs=()
zfs
    zfs/pool1/newuser smb=()
          /export/home/newuser
                  pool1_newuser=/export/home/newuser     smb=(abe="false" guestok="false")

Now you should be able to connect to that share from another machine (you'll need to authenticate as the correct user, of course.)

smb://(ip address or host name)/export/home/newuser

Everything is up for Samba. Repeat this process to create users and shares as needed.

6 NFS Setup:

This one's pretty easy. If you want an NFS server to share all home directories, do the following:

root@server1:~# zfs set sharenfs=on pool1

It's that easy. If you want to share specific pools, like the one we created for newuser, it would be:

root@server1:~# zfs set sharenfs=on pool1/newuser

Verify the share is up:

root@server1:/# sharemgr show -vp

default nfs=()
zfs
    zfs/pool1 nfs=()
          /export/home

I should point out that the UID and GID of the client connecting should match, otherwise you won't be able to connect/read/write. I am not going to go into how to set up a NIS master server here, as out of the box Nexenta doesn't include the network/nis/server, network/nis/passwd, network/nis/update, network/nis/xfr services. These could be installed as packages from Sun/OpenSolaris but I haven't looked into this yet. As long as the client you're using (whether it's OS X, Services For UNIX on Windows, or Linux) can either translate or match the UID/GID of the user on the server, you won't run into connection problems. I'll look more into this and write a new tutorial for creating a NIS master server and attaching Samba to an Active Directory Domain in the future.

• Nexenta: http://www.nexenta.org/
• ZFS Best Practices Guide: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide