On Monday, March 25, 2024 1:46:26 PM EDT Ralph Boehme wrote: > Hi John, > > On 3/21/24 20:12, John Mulligan wrote: > > > I'd like to formally let the wider community know of some work I've been > > involved with for a while now: adding Managed SMB Protocol Support to > > Ceph. SMB being the well known network file protocol native to Windows > > systems and supported by MacOS (and Linux). The other key word "managed" > > meaning integrating with Ceph management tooling - in this particular > > case cephadm for orchestration and eventually a new MGR module for > > managing SMB shares. > > The effort is still in it's very early stages. We have a PR adding > > initial > > support for Samba Containers to cephadm [1] and a prototype for an smb > > MGR > > module [2]. We plan on using container images based on the > > samba-container > > project [3] - a team I am already part of. What we're aiming for is a > > feature set similar to the current NFS integration in Ceph, but with a > > focus on bridging non-Linux/Unix clients to CephFS using a protocol built > > into those systems. > > > > A few major features we have planned include: > > * Standalone servers (internally defined users/groups) > > * Active Directory Domain Member Servers > > * Clustered Samba support > > * Exporting Samba stats via Prometheus metrics > > * A `ceph` cli workflow loosely based on the nfs mgr module > > > > I wanted to share this information in case there's wider community > > interest in this effort. > > > certainly! :) > > If it makes sense, you may want to pull in samba-technical where it > makes sense. Absolutely. I'm currently focusing on the basics and those are mostly good- to-go for our needs in current samba releases. In the future, I'm sure we'll run into times where technical help or changes will be needed. > If there's a need, you can also pull me in directly into > meetings or other channels to discuss things. > Thanks! I appreciate it! > Looking forward to seeing you at SambaXP, at least virtually. You too. :-) > Any plans to attend SDC from you or others from your team? > I'm unsure. I'll ask around. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
