Funny that you ask. I just had to document the configuration of version 3.0 so that a Win2k Solaris 8 pair could cross mount. The hairy part is the name service mappings. If you have identically named users between unix and windows it is fairly straightforward, but you can get pretty far lost in the unix-to-windows namespace mappings otherwise. So it is not quite as easy as "install this.exe" and have something working.
One nice thing about this is that the NFS sharing is integrated into the folder properties dialog as an extra tab beside the "Sharing" tab!
IMO the nfs portion is the only compelling part of this package. I would rather do Cygwin for a shell/dev environment.
The "Military Grade" security is an easy way to understand what Trusted Solaris is. TS has been developed in parallel with "Vanilla" Solaris since 2.5.1, with the goal of folding features into one code base.
With Solaris 8 the Role Based Administration features was introduced, but so far not a lot of shops have figured out how to use it.
The final phase that they are set to "unleash" into mainstream Solaris is the "Multi-Level" tagging, where filesystems, process, console X windows, and network packets all receive a Security Label. In the Military world, this would be Unclass, Secret, Top Secret, etc. For the Commercial world this would be Public, For Internal Use Only, Confidential, Confidential HR, Conf. Legal, Conf. Eng, etc.
Actually a pretty good way to protect internal resources, but the administration overhead sucks!
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Funny that you ask. I just had to document the configuration of version 3.0 so that a Win2k Solaris 8 pair could cross mount. The hairy part is the name service mappings. If you have identically named users between unix and windows it is fairly straightforward, but you can get pretty far lost in the unix-to-windows namespace mappings otherwise. So it is not quite as easy as "install this .exe" and have something working.
One nice thing about this is that the NFS sharing is integrated into the folder properties dialog as an extra tab beside the "Sharing" tab!
IMO the nfs portion is the only compelling part of this package. I would rather do Cygwin for a shell/dev environment.
The "Military Grade" security is an easy way to understand what Trusted Solaris is. TS has been developed in parallel with "Vanilla" Solaris since 2.5.1, with the goal of folding features into one code base. With Solaris 8 the Role Based Administration features was introduced, but so far not a lot of shops have figured out how to use it. The final phase that they are set to "unleash" into mainstream Solaris is the "Multi-Level" tagging, where filesystems, process, console X windows, and network packets all receive a Security Label. In the Military world, this would be Unclass, Secret, Top Secret, etc. For the Commercial world this would be Public, For Internal Use Only, Confidential, Confidential HR, Conf. Legal, Conf. Eng, etc. Actually a pretty good way to protect internal resources, but the administration overhead sucks!