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Hi, I'm new to Solaris 11. The goal is to set up a ZFS raid-Z2 NAS.

These are the instructions I've been trying to follow, with no luck:

"Setting Up an OpenSolaris NAS Box: Father-Son Bonding"

(not allowed to post URL)

Issues:

1) Root access is evidently required but I don't remember being given an option to set up a root password?

2) Web searches about root access have mentioned "single user mode"?

3) How do I determine hostname ( as in: https://<hostname>:6789/zfs)? ( entered "hostname" and it returned a value of "solaris" but entering "solaris" in the aforementioned address does not seem to work.)

4) I tried to give myself the root task and it seemed to take the command but applications sill ask for the "root" password even after I thought the user was assigned to the root task.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

If the questions are too basic please point me towards some good reading.

Just use

Code:

sudo -s

and your regular user account password to launch a root shell.

ZFS web management (https://xxx:6789/zfs) is obsolete. Use the CLI.

Simon Breedon did a piece about setting up pretty much what you are trying to do. the article is a little dated (2008) and he was using Solaris 10 express. However, the steps are quite similar and I think you will have good success following:

Since I just joined, I cannot post the URL

So parse this or use it for a google search.

bredon dot org dot uk slash 2008/03/02 slash a-home-fileserver-using-zfs

OK, thanks.

If using the CLI is required I'm going to need a new set of instructions to follow.

How do you display physical drives available for the pool? All the instruction I'm finding assume you already know what your drives are called (and they are not "C:, D:" as in windows, nor are they "/mnt/hda1, hda2" or "/media/sda1, sda2"as they are in linux)?

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OK, great! Thanks dbtrade!

Found it no problem. To answer my own question "format" looks like it will do the trick. Those instructions are a lot better (for beginners) than the others I've found.

Thanks again.

It lives!

Steps (for my own info, as well as others):

1) At "$" prompt use "su -" or "sudo -s" to get root level "#" prompt (pfexec did not work)
2) # format (displays physical drives to be used in pool), use "control c" to exit format.
3) # zpool create storagepool raidz2 c11t0d0 c11t1d0 c11t2d0 c11t3d0 c11t4d0 c11t5d0 (creates a raidz2 virtual device named "storagepool" from physical devices c11t0d0 to c11t5d0)
4) # zfs create -o casesensitivity=mixed storagepool/media (creates a subfolder named media in the folder storagepool)
5)# zfs create -o casesensitivity=mixed storagepool/media/shows (creates a subfolder named shows in media)
6) # chown -R <username> /storagepool (transfers ownership to the user instead of root)

Setting up sharing:

7) # svcadm enable -r smb/server (turns sharing on?)
8) # smbadm join -w WORKGROUP (allows for compatibly with windows workgroup sharing)
9) # echo "other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn" >> /etc/pam.conf (I have no idea) EDIT: Allows the next step (step 10) to edit the file pam.conf to include a new smb password...
10) # passwd username (changes password, not sure why) EDIT: Changes the remote smb password (due to step 9), not the regular local user password.
11) # zfs set sharesmb=name=shows storagepool/shows (shares the folder at storagepool/shows as "shows")

Note that the name "storagepool" is picked by the user and could have been any name at step 3.
The name "media" in step 4 and "shows" in step 5 are also user selected and could be any descriptive word.
Finally the name "shows" in step 11 at name=shows is the user selected shared name which can be different than the local name of the folder.

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So now that the ZFS pool is up and running it is time to fill it up with data. I've got a linux external hard drive with the ext2 file system I'd like to plug in and use.

I can't figure out how to mount it, or if it automounts, I can't find the mount point?

It show up as drive 7 after running the format command.

On all the other operating systems I use a new device just pops up and works with a click or two. Even older Linux distros would mount with a simple command like "mount /dev/sda /mnt/sda1" or something like that.

How does one do this type of thing with Solaris 11?

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This is the drive I want to mount:

7. c12t0d0 <WDCWD10-EACS-00ZJB0-01.0 cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
/pci@0,0/pci1458,5004@12,2/storage@6/disk@0,0

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I just tried an 8GB USB memory stick and it automounted real easy.

The drive that does not mount is a 1 TB USB bootable linux with at least 2 partitions, maybe 3 (boot, swap, data). The data partition is ext2.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

If you want to use pfexec to get full privileges with a regular user account, you need to grant it the "Primary Administrator" profile. It is no more set by default with new installations of Solaris 11 Express.
The automounter automatically mounts file systems from newly inserted removable devices as long as the file system is supported. This is however not the case with ext2fs. There used to be third party read only support which might still work with Solaris 11:
http://www.genunix.org/distributions....FSWfsmisc.txt

jlliagre

The "pfexec" was only important because my local expert insisted I use "pfexec" instead of "su -" or "sudo -s". Although we are both running Solaris 11 his system acts differently because he updated an existing Solaris 10 install, while mine is a virgin 11 install. Using "su -" took care of this issue, thanks.

As far as the NTFS/EXT2 support goes...

I think I'm going to leave the Solaris box alone and just use other computers on the network to access file systems Solaris does not support natively. Now that it is up and running the Solars box networks really easily with both Windows and Linux. A $27 gigabit switch should eliminate the network as a bottleneck.

Thanks for all the help!