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Concise steps to Setting up Solaris NFS & Samba

Hi,

I just got a decommissioned Sun V125.

I would like to set it up as an NFS & Samba so that Windows & Linux clients could do
remote backup to it.

a)is Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 a better choice for this?

b)I can install the full Solaris (including Developer's options) or what's the minimum
that I should install so that I don't use too much disk space & yet could have NFS,
Samba & ssh server+client enabled?

c)Kindly give me the concise steps/instructions on how to set up & enable Samba
& NFS

d)with Samba enabled, can Windows clients just map a network drive to it?
(ie at Windows client's MSDOS prompt, do "net use drive: \\file_server_IP\sharename

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Hi Omar,

I'm trying to partition the test Sun server that I'm going to set up as NFS & Samba
server. One way is to have only one partition that I don't have to worry about
managing the disk space manually - but this may be bad idea as root may fills up
& hang the system.

What's the minimum space recommended (with developer's option) tt I should
allocate for root? For /var, don't plan to apply patches as I'll disconnect this
server when not in use so won't be subject to security audit.

If possible, I was hoping that I could install the least options of Solaris 10 so that
it doesn't take up much disk space - this is only a small Sun V125 which does
not have much disks space & I'll need all the space to hold the flash archives/
backups of other servers. Does NFS & Samba really need those developer's
options or a standard Solaris 10 should suffice?

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