Solaris 10 SSH Migration

While migrating data between multiple servers I ran into a few interesting situations with SSH that I thought would be worth mentioning. If nothing else it will add some more documentation to this site. Solaris tar vs. GNU tar After using tar for years on Linux I always figured all tar’s were the same until I tried to untar an archive on Solaris. When I untar’ed a Linux tar archive on Solaris I ran into an error along with a @LongLink file in my directory. This was caused by incompatabilities between GNU tar and the default tar bundled in Solaris. …

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Solaris 10 Samba / ZFS Configuration

The following is a summary detailing step-by-step how to setup Solaris 10 as an active directory integrated file server using Samba and ZFS. The following example comes from a production configuration on an x4500 and previously a similar configuration was used on a production Linux file server for three years. I will update this web site as I test my final configurations. I make no promises/warranties regarding any of this information. The following information contains my opinions from my own experience with Solaris/Samba/ZFS. The following documentation is provided for educational purposes only and should be used at your own risk. …

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Solaris 10 Samba Maintenance

Replace permissions on a project directory Because ZFS ACL’s include the concept of inheritance and differentiate between files and directories we need to do a search and replace operation in order to recursively change permissions on an entire directory. chmod -R A- /export/Corporate/Saleschmod -R 770 /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A0=owner@:————–:fdi—:deny /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A1=owner@:rwxpdD-A-W-Co-:fdi—:allow /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A2=group@:————–:fdi—:deny /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A3=group@:rwxpdD——–:fdi—:allow /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A4=everyone@:rwxp–aARWcCos:fdi—:deny /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A+group:domain+domain users:rx:deny /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A+group:domain+corporate-all:wpdDxrcaRAwW:fd:allow /export/Corporate/Saleschmod A+group:domain+corporate-sales:wpdDxraRAwW:fd:allow //export/Corporate/Saleschmod A+group:domain+domain admins:Co:fd:allow /export/Corporate/Salescd /export/Corporate/Salesfind . -type d -exec chmod A0=owner@:————–:fdi—:deny {} ;find . -type d -exec chmod A1=owner@:rwxpdD-A-W-Co-:fdi—:allow {} ;find . -type d -exec chmod A2=group@:————–:fdi—:deny {} ;find . -type d -exec chmod A3=group@:rwxpdD——–:fdi—:allow {} ;find . …

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Technology

Technology has always been an important part of my life. It began with my first 8086 computer and the days before the internet BBS’ing. I started businesses designing web pages and building computers/networks/infrastructure for people when I was younger and began working in the IT sector about twenty years ago.

Over the years I have very thankful for all of the support documentation written by other people and so as time permits I try and provide some of this information back here. I hope this can be of help.

I make no promises/warranties regarding any of this information. The following information contains my opinions from my own experience. The following documentation is provided for educational purposes only and should be used at your own risk.