amazon.es/Fantec-1695-Carcasa-Externa-Discos/dp/B00ORENYJE --- would something like this be usable for SmartOS? will it detect the disks over USB ? and can vms run from a secondary pool? it's an intel NUC, only has internal room for 2 disks. and I'd like to expand it.

u would rather not use usb disks on smartos, it's possible but slow, even slower then you might expect. don't know the intel NUC, but if there is some kind of eSATA or pci-e slot, go to get some external sata device

Dumb question --> is there anyone here using the native SMB/CIFS on SmartOS?

i need to.. i think i'm stull using netatalk for time machine and such

one thing if i get time i'd like to do is also hook in mDNS support to the smb server -- so when you enable smb/server, it'll automatically generate the mDNS announcements if dns/multicast is running (and a property to turn it off).. right now you can script it up, but no reason it can't be more integrated

just the cifs entry or also the basic hinfo record based on the description field we already have in the properties for smb?

i don't think clients that use mdns (e.g. macs) use the hinfo recrods.. just txt

doesn't it pull the icon and stuff from there if you look at the file info panel on the host itself?

danmcd: yep

I ask because there's a subtle difference in the SmartOS code and I want to resolve it either upstream or in illumos-joyent.

(Pardon latency from here on out. Out for rest of day...)

danmcd: I do, but not regularly.

is it something you can elaborate on?

jbk: I've got full instructions for getting native SMB working with time machine

jbk: docs.smartos.org/configuring-smb-in-smartos/#enabling-time-machine

bahamat: yes -- what i'm referring to is actually integrating that into the smb server process

I set up time machine, but the disks on that system were way too slow to complete a back up. It was going to take like 160h to back up a 1T drive.

so you don't have to do all of that

There's a bit of manual lining up the share with the advertised records

But that could be done completely programatically.

Actually, just having a network/smb/mdns:default service instance would be how I'd like to go about it.

no need for that even

just if mdns is running

smb server just needs to call the functions to add the records

that's all dns-sd is doing

Does it auto withdraw them when the process exits?

it can

When I kill the process the name goes away

I think I followed your guide, or some of it at least when I set it up on omnios

Yeah, it should work for anything illumos distro. dns-sd is in gate.