I can not ping anything from VB (I can surf the internet). It is because it uses the default NAT configuration. I need to create and setup a virtual NIC to be able to ping stuff. The VB manual doesnt describe that good for Solaris.

Anyway, my question is; I only want to share folders. Has someone succeeded in sharing folders without creating and setup a virtual NIC? When I share folders on my ZFS raid, I can see the files from WinXP but the files are of size zero. I can see all files from WinXP, but the file sizes are zero. Is this because I need to create a virtual NIC? Or do the default NAT work?

I'm sharing ZFS cifs folders with XP in a NAT VB with no problem.

Here is a cookbook that may help:
http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn/entry/bondin

Oops, I wasnt clear. I mean:

I have VB installed on Solaris b91. Inside VB I have installed WinXP. Now I want to access folders on Solaris from within WinXP. Have you succeeded with this?

I get the impression that you have an external desktop WinXP and CIFS on your Solaris computer? Or?

You were clear enough and that is the configuration I'm using. XP is running as a guest with VirtualBox hosted on Solaris Express and accessing it through NAT. My SX is an older version but that shouldn't make a difference.

I did everything as in the CIFS HOW-TO you posted, and it worked (dont forget to update the passwd, and provide an IP adress instead of host name).

However, I have a problem. When connecting to ZFS, some files and directories are missing. If anyone knows, please tell me.

Likely an ACL issue.

ACL? User ownership? But when I do "ls -dv" I get the same result. It should not be ACL that is the problem, then?


bash-3.2$ ls -dv 3*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sean other 736197058 Mar 19 21:56 tretiotill
0wner@:execute:deny
1wner@:read_data/write_data/append_data/write_xattr/write_attributes
/write_acl/write_owner:allow
2:group@:write_data/append_data/execute:deny
3:group@:read_data:allow
4:everyone@:write_data/append_data/write_xattr/execute/write_attributes
/write_acl/write_owner:deny
5:everyone@:read_data/read_xattr/read_attributes/read_acl/synchronize
:allow


-rw-r--r-- 1 sean other 733896704 Feb 5 17:17 trettio
0wner@:execute:deny
1wner@:read_data/write_data/append_data/write_xattr/write_attributes
/write_acl/write_owner:allow
2:group@:write_data/append_data/execute:deny
3:group@:read_data:allow
4:everyone@:write_data/append_data/write_xattr/execute/write_attributes
/write_acl/write_owner:deny
5:everyone@:read_data/read_xattr/read_attributes/read_acl/synchronize
:allow

I can see file "tretiotill" in VB with CIFS, but I can not see file "trettio". They have identical properties. Maybe it is not an ACL issue? (Ive renamed the files)




There is a bug introduced in CIFS server in build 93, they recommend not using b93 with CIFS server. I am using b93 right now. Could this be the problem?
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thre...65996&tstart=0

It could be the problem indeed.