Showing posts with label workgroup server. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workgroup server. Show all posts

2009-01-13

OpenSolaris can do CIFS and save my day

The OpenSolaris OpenSolaris CIFS service is really cool and has just saved me from loosing all my digital pictures. I have a laptop with XP that holds all my digital pictures (tens of thousands) and it has started to give up. XP tends to do that over time. So, I realised that I have a desktop with OpenSolaris installed since way back. It has lots of disk so I just did a 'pkg image-update' and there I was with a machine capable of acting as the family workgroup data server via CIFS. Really cool. Google for OpenSolaris CIFS workgroup to learn more. Just a couple of commands and off you go...