toasters April 1998

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RE: Firmware and such...
by Weeks, Thomas 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

Hi all.. I'm new here... No I havn't read any FAQ's yet.. My config: FS230 (FIDDI and e0) 4.2.aD9 128M DRAM 4M SRAM NFS access with mount privs via host/netgroup and client NFS authentication CIFS (to test file space area) Right now it looks like the best way to give my customers both NFS anf CIFS access to the same file space is by using the /etc/passwd file... <sigh>.. this is a real pain... Has anyone been using OnTap 5.0? Any comments about CIFS access/shares via ACLs? Rigth now we're having to relate users to UNIX file permissions and it's a real pain becuase we have to merge over 27 different /etc/passwd files down to the 230's single passwd file... If there is a conflicting UID... we have to do the UID shuffle and go back and change them on the UNIX box to refelct what the NetApp has them down as. (BTW.. our UNIX servers are Solaris boxes and use NIS+, but they were configured wrong and all have their OWN NIS+ domain (stupid eh?))... Also... I am NOT using the CIFS.GUEST setting.. does anyone have good/bad experienve with this? Can the whole homedir thing still be used if this is implimented? Also again.. Why does the book say that you don't have to have the http license to do http admin and all I can get on our 230 is http man pages? Sorry for all the Q's at once... Thanx... Tom D Tek

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Firmware and such...
by Alexei Rodriguez 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

I think some of these issues have been raised before, but I thought I would raise them again :) We just upgraded our filer from 4.2a to 4.3.3 this morning. When we got the 4.3.3 files from NOW, we read the firmware docs. They state that you must have firmware 1.6 and above to run 4.2a and above. So, we thought "no problem; we are running 4.2a so we must have 1.6 on the box". Wrong. We had version 1.4a of the firmware on our f540. So, I had to get someone at the NOC to do all the floppy shuffling (our site is 2500 miles away). No problem. I just get scared whenever I do a firmware upgrade. Some scars never heal :) Ok, the firmware upgrade goes well. We then proceed to do the DataONTAP upgrade. No problem. There should be a note in the docs that warn of the time delay when doing a "download". I had not done one in a while and had forgotten all about it. might be nice to let folks know that this may take a few minutes. Ok, so I now have a f540 filer with firmware 1.6 and ONTAP 4.3.3. Whoohoo. Now, my concerns: - there should be a better way of looking at the firmware rev, other than having to halt the filer. - the system boot should be logged (all of it, including the firmware banner, like a Sun) - a CHANGELOG for firmware revs would be nice I think these changes would be nice. We have been having some odd issues with our FDDI (at around midnight the filer stops doing NFS on the FDDI interface; we down and up the interface and all is good). I wonder if this would have anything to do with an incorrect firmware rev... we have swapped the card and pci slot it is in. I am hoping that the new firmware/os will perhaps clear the problem. Alexei

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First posting test.... Ignore please
by Weeks, Thomas 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

Test test..1..2..3.. No Reply needed if this is really working... Tom D Tek

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