One
of our goals for the Solaris CIFS Service is to provide seamless
Windows interoperability: not just to deliver ubiquitous, multi-protocol
file sharing, which is obviously a major part of this project, but to
support Windows services at a fundamental level. It's an ongoing
mission and our latest update includes support for Windows remote
management.
Remote management is extremely important to Windows administrators and one of the mainstay tools is Computer Management. Computer Management is a Windows administration application, actually a collection of Microsoft Management Console (MMC)
tools, that can be used to configure, monitor and manage local and
remote services and resources. The MMC is an extensible framework of
registered components, known as snap-ins, which allows Computer
Management to provide comprehensive management features for both the
local system and remote systems on the network.
Supported Computer Management features include:
Share ManagementSupport for share management is
relatively complete. You can create, delete, list and configure
shares. It's not yet possible to change the maximum allowed or number
of users properties but other properties, including the Share
Permissions, can be managed via the MMC.
Users, Groups and ConnectionsYou can view local SMB
users and groups, monitor user connections and see the list of open
files. If necessary, you can also disconnect users and/or close files.
ServicesYou can view the SMF services running on an
OpenSolaris system. This is a read-only view - we don't support service
management (the ability to start or stop) SMF services from Computer
Management (yet).
To
ensure that only the appropriate users have access to administrative
operations there are some access restrictions on these remote management
features.
Regular users can:
List shares
Only members of the Administrators or Power Users groups can:
Manage shares
List connections
Only members of the Administrators group can:
List open files and close files
Disconnect users
View SMF services
View the EventLog
Here's
a screenshot when I was using Computer Management and Server Manager
(another Windows remote management application) on Windows XP to view
some open files on an OpenSolaris system to prepare a slide presentation
on MMC support.
