Sharing quick start guide

An updated version of this post can be seen here.
CIFS quick start guide

1. Create zpool and directory/zfs for user
(eg substitute your own zpool name for "pool", user for "username", stor or create new group for "guid"

zfs create -o casesensitivity=mixed -o sharesmb=on pool/username
zfs set sharesmb=name=sharename pool/user
zfs set compression=on pool/username or
zfs set compression=gzip pool/username

2. Step 1 of the Samba quick start guide and

passwd username

3 Set permissions on share directory/zfs

cd /pool
chown username:guid username
chmod 755 username

Samba quick start guide

1. Add user(s) to system account

useradd  -u uid -g guid -s /bin/false username
# useradd -u 551 -g 500 -s /bin/false user1

2. Add user(s) to samba account

smbpasswd -U username -a
# smbpasswd -U user1 -a

enter and confirm the password

On your windows machine

Start -> Run

\\IP\share
\\192.168.43.1\user1

enter username/password set from step 2 of Samba quick start

Tim Thomas has a good article on CIFS configuration for further understanding.
Alan Wright has a good blog entry on Client side Caching. More on Active Directory Integration, Shares and Permissions (ZFS acl settings)

More on building your own fileserver. Breden has a great article here.