toasters January 1999

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RE: Samba 2.0 as Windows PDC ?
by Allison, Bridget 28 Jan '99

28 Jan '99

>Does anyone have any experience using Samba 2.0 as a PDC? I don't know of any filer customer using Samba's PDC functionality successfully with the filer. I do know that based on my periodic checks with the Samba team on just when it makes sense for us to sink our engineering time into making sure we work with a Samba PDC, it's too early to start that work right now. The PDC support is not production quality - that's the word from the Samba team rather than mine. So, we do intend to work with a Samba PDC, it's part of our plan and we're trying to make sure the Samba side is fully cooked before we start our integration work. In the meantime, if there are customers using it successfully they haven't told me. They certainly couldn't use it with the NTFS style security today - Samba 2.0 doesn't have any SIDS to return to the filer. Since that's the case today, I'm presuming your question is more around the user authentication per se - just one aspect of PDC functionality but the primary one Samba does right now. >Also, what products (like Samba 2.0), if any, are people using to >synchronize logins between Unix (NIS) and Windows (NT PDC), especially >in a mixed environment using NetApp filers. Keith suggested our one-way tool, the MS Services for Unix is another one-way tool. I've seen some discussion on this topic on one of the Samba mailing lists - I think it was the samba-ntdom list - just this past week or so. You might want to check out the archives http://us1.samba.org/samba/archives.html If you find something you'd recommend then please let me know - we'd be interested in finding something to recommend to customers. Bridget ----------------------- Network Appliance Inc. 408 367 3419

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multiple CIFS HOME directories?
by Daniel Quinlan 28 Jan '99

28 Jan '99

Is it possible to have multiple default shares for CIFS homes? I am running 5.1.2P2. For example, let's say I have two quota trees on a NetApp. One is /vol/vol0/home_eng and the other is /vol/vol0/home_finance. Let's say home_eng is exported via NFS (for engineers) and home_finance is not (because it contains sensitive information such as employee salaries). I want to allow people to access both via CIFS. It is assumed that there will not be any username collisions between the two hierarchies. So if there is a /home_eng/bob directory, there won't be a /home_finance/bob directory (and vice versa). Can what I am trying to accomplish be done? (People like being able to map \\filer\myname to a drive letter. They don't like having to do stuff like \\filer\something -> W:\ and then having to go to W:\myname.) Thanks. - Dan

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Re: Samba 2.0 as Windows PDC ?
by Keith Brown 28 Jan '99

28 Jan '99

>Does anyone have any experience using Samba 2.0 as a PDC? We don't officially support the use of non-Microsoft domain controllers at this time. Sorry... >Also, what products (like Samba 2.0), if any, are people using to >synchronize logins between Unix (NIS) and Windows (NT PDC), especially >in a mixed environment using NetApp filers. We have one of our own, and it's free! :-) Check out... http://now.netapp.com/tools/ and select the "SecureShare Account Migrator" tool. Keith

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Re: multiple CIFS HOME directories?
by Keith Brown 28 Jan '99

28 Jan '99

>Is it possible to have multiple default shares for CIFS homes? Not at the moment, although some enhancements are currently being made in this area. For people who have UNIX though, there is a workaround. Here's the gig... The idea is that you create a single home directories directory and populate it with symbolic links to the real home directories which can be anywhere on the filer. So, if: options cifs.home_dir {/vol/vol0}/home and joe and bill have home directories in /vol/vol5/home, then from a UNIX client you can: % cd /filer/vol0/home % ln -s /vol/vol5/home/joe ./joe % ln -s /vol/vol5/home/bill ./bill and bill and joe will get to play on the autoshare world even though their home directories are not in the cifs.home_dir directory. You might be forgiven for thinking "What about the not-following-symlinks-out-of-a-share rule?". Well, this doesn't apply here because the symlink *is* the share. Also beware: % cd /filer/vol0/home % ln -s /filer/vol5/home/joe ./joe % ln -s /filer/vol5/home/bill ./bill won't do the job, because if you do this, you set the symlinks to match the NFS *clients* view of where the directories are, not the filer's view. You would then have to engage the /etc/symlink.translations mechanism to translate the symlinks betwixt views, and you probably don't want to get into that. Keith

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Samba 2.0 as Windows PDC ?
by Daniel Quinlan 28 Jan '99

28 Jan '99

Does anyone have any experience using Samba 2.0 as a PDC? Also, what products (like Samba 2.0), if any, are people using to synchronize logins between Unix (NIS) and Windows (NT PDC), especially in a mixed environment using NetApp filers. Thanks for any info or suggestions. - Dan

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Tape Robots and "autoloading".
by grdodson＠lexmark.com 28 Jan '99

28 Jan '99

We are purchasing a F760 and are faced with the usual backup dilemma. To backup our F630 we have a single drive DLT robot (Breece Hill Q2.15) and use local dumps. This takes 15+ hours a day (3 tapes) and obviously doesn't scale well. So we are investigating larger robots with multiple tape drives. Currently the StorageTek 9730 is looking interesting. The problem we have is by using local dumps we need the tape robot to autoload the drives. Moreover with a multi drive robot the autoload function needs to be able to control which slots are loaded into which drives. Anyone know of the StorageTek supports this? Any other recommendations multi drive 28+ slot tape robots are also welcome. FYI. The reason we aren't just stacking two Breece Hill Q2.15's is that we have been underwhelmed with the usability and quality of these boxes. We find the documentation and user interface to be quite poor. (And they never delivered the S/W upgrade they promised) The reason we aren't using an NDMP backup S/W package is that the nature of the data on this box requires a "level 0" backup every night. Most of the features of the NDMP S/W would never be needed (indexing, etc.) and therefore be an unnecessary expense. Graydon Dodson (606) 232-6483 grdodson(a)lexmark.com Lexmark International Inc.

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DEC TZ887 tape drive
by Nigel Metheringham 27 Jan '99

27 Jan '99

Anyone got one of these going on a NetApp (a 630 running 5.2.1)?? Its supposed to be just the same as a Quantum 4700, but initial tests are failing to write on it. The same drive was previously in use successfully on some other system (not NetApp). Do I need to hack the drive type ID - I thought all that was not needed with the latest releases. However 5.2.1 does not appear to be looking at the cloned_tapes in the same way as 5.1 (it didn't work right then either). Using the diag stuff on the mt command, a dump gives the following output:- DUMP: creating "/vol/web/.snapshot/snapshot_for_backup.2" snapshot. DUMP: Using Full Volume Dump DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Jan 27 17:54:18 1999. DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch. DUMP: Dumping /vol/web/ to rst0a DUMP: mapping (Pass I)[regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II)[directories] Wed Jan 27 17:55:30 GMT [netapp2: isp_main]: Tape (4.5):cmdblk 0xfffffc0000ae2ef0 op 0xa block 0 illegal request (5 30, 0) DUMP: Tape write failed. Wed Jan 27 17:55:30 GMT [netapp2: isp_main]: Tape (4.5) unrecognized error 0x5. DUMP: DUMP IS ABORTED DUMP: Deleting "/vol/web/.snapshot/snapshot_for_backup.2" snapshot. All clues gratefully received :-) Nigel. -- [ Nigel.Metheringham(a)theplanet.net - Systems Software Engineer ] [ Tel : +44 113 207 6112 Fax : +44 113 234 6065 ] [ Real life is but a pale imitation of a Dilbert strip ] [ We're recruiting http://www.theplanet.net/profile/recruit.htm ]

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DRP documents...
by eyal traitel 27 Jan '99

27 Jan '99

Has anyone wrote a Disaster Recovery Plan documents for a filer? Can someone share his documents (or at least the technical parts...) ? Yours, Eyal Traitel

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DATA OnTap and WINS...
by eyal traitel 27 Jan '99

27 Jan '99

Hi! Does anyone has experience with NetApp's WINS support and Samba's WINS? I get all the time "No WINS servers are responding; still trying"... Yours, Eyal Traitel

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list tweak
by fubar＠mathworks.com 26 Jan '99

26 Jan '99

I've just tweaked the toasters list, making it a bona fide majordomo list. Hopefully (if I've got it right ;-), we'll stop seeing those darned "sub-scribe" messages to the list... The change may effect any filtering you have. From now on, list mail should appear to be from "owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com", rather than me. If it breaks your setup, sorry. If there are any real problems, feel free to shout at me. ;-) K.

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