lwio watch: Week 8 ending March 13, 2009
This one is another short post. Here are our highlights
1) Share management is fully operational: This means you can launch MMC from your Windows client; load up the share management snapin and point to Linux box running the lwio SMB file server and srvsvc daemon. The result is that you can browse shares from a Windows client; you can create a new share on your Linux server as well and do all of the file share operations. We have yet to complete the “open files” and “open sessions” functionality. But we’re so pleased with seamless management that we’ve punted on this for now.
2) Our Likewise FuSE driver is fully operational: This means that a Linux client joined to Active Directory can easily mount SMB shares on a Windows/Samba/Likewise SMB file server. Here is the cool part: you login on your Linux machine using your Active Directory credentials and single sign-on mount your SMB file share. If your machine is multi-user and simultaneously your buddy logs on to the same machine and mounts his SMB file share using our FuSE driver; he connects seamlessly with his credentials to the SMB server. This is a really elegant piece of work. Brian tells me that OpenOffice running on a Linux client can save files to a Likewise/Samba/Windows SMB File Server through our SMB redirector. As you can notice, I am getting a kick out of saying Likewise/Samba/Windows SMB File Server. The cool thing here is not the file server, it is our FuSe driver that calls our SMB redirector (file client) within the LWIO Framework.
3) A ton of other coolness; I thought I’d just copy Jerry’s mail to me
“What works:
* User profiles load from the network
* Home directories mount properly at login time.
* My Documents redirection to %HOMESHARE%\%HOMEPATH%\Documents
works fine.
Also ran some tests with iTunes and was able to successfully import and existing library XML file and 4k mp3s from a network share to my current iTunes library. So now all my music is being served (and playing 24×7) from our server. Also editing mp3 song properties (artist, genre, etc…) works properly.
What is not working:
* Take ownership of files fails
* Roaming profiles are not saving
I believe that both of these are due to the lack of properly support partial security descriptor set operations (based on the SECURITY_INFORMATION flags) which I will implement today.”
I’ll post some screenshots once I get some cycles…
Thanks for reading!
