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Roaming profiles on toaster?
by Colm Buckley 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

Folks - I'm trying to track down a problem here, and I'm wondering if anyone else in this forum has encountered something like the following: We have a large number of students whose home directories are stored on a NetApp F720 called "swift". Using Windows NT clients, these are generally mapped as the user's home drive at logon (everything's in a Windows NT domain). For example, user "joesmith" might have a home directory set to "\\toaster\joesmith" (mapped to the U: drive at logon). So far so crunchy. However, the users' NT roaming profiles are also stored on the filer - for "joesmith", his profile is at "\\toaster\joesmith\.NTProfile" and so on. Everything seems to work okay 95% of the time, except I have noticed that users' profiles become corrupted with puzzling frequency - more than I can attribute to things like quota overflows or turning the computers off in mid-logout (yes, we get those too). Could it be a problem with the interaction between an NT client and the filer? Does anyone else have a setup similar to this? Noticed any problems? Colm (of course, it could just be more brain-death in NT) -- Colm Buckley B.A. B.F. # colm(a)tuatha.org colm.buckley(a)cs.tcd.ie Department of Computer Science # +353 87 2469146 # whois cb3765 Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. # http://www.tuatha.org/~colm/ If at first you don't succeed, to hell with it.

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Re: User Quotas in CIFS Environment
by Luke Mewburn 28 Nov '99

28 Nov '99

"Plawner, Marom" writes: > One other problem: > (Related but not completely related, so I deleted the original message) > When a user@tree quota is assigned, each user sees the whole volume's disk > space, not their quota limit and their current disk usage. Anyone noticed > this problem or better yet, knows of a solution? I've seen this recently too. However, I was sure that in the past I've seen the filers do the right thing. Maybe something got broken, but like you, I'd expect that the user should see the size of the share as the size of their quota, not the total share size. Or at least have it an option that can be enabled... (We've been using user@tree quotas and CIFS for a couple of years now, and I've seen various bits of behaviour change between releases...)

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RE: User Quotas in CIFS Environment
by Plawner, Marom 28 Nov '99

28 Nov '99

One other problem: (Related but not completely related, so I deleted the original message) When a user@tree quota is assigned, each user sees the whole volume's disk space, not their quota limit and their current disk usage. Anyone noticed this problem or better yet, knows of a solution? Thanks, Marom Plawner ITI Systems Group Manager Comverse Network Systems

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User Quotas in CIFS Environment
by Plawner, Marom 28 Nov '99

28 Nov '99

Hello! We're using the F720 in a pure CIFS environment. We have the: Cifs.home_dir = /users option enabled. Basically, every user automatically gets a home directory on the filer. (Assuming that they have a directory in the /users folder in their username... we have a login script that creates this if they don't, and maps it to a drive letter.) In the quotas, we have a line: * user@/vol/vol0/users 250M # Default users get 250MB home dir Supposedly, each CIFS user who connects is supposed to get 250 MB quota. But what happened is that all users had just a total of 250 MB COMBINED! Why? Because all users were mapped to 1 account name, and that account got 250 MB quota. To work around this problem, we have to import all users from the NT domain to the /etc/passwd file. Not passwords or anything, just use the migrate program. This solves the problem, but creates new problems: * The command line version of the migration tool doesn't work on our domain (of about 4,000 users). I tried in all sorts of configurations, it crashes every time. * The Beta version of the GUI Migration tool works nicely, but I have to run it by hand (no command line parameters as far as I know) * Our company grows about 100 new employees a month, this must be done all the time * If the UID of an account in the /etc/passwd file gets changed, it starts the quota from 0 (even if the directory was full). Therefore, it is very important the whoever runs the program does it right! I don't have the time to do it, but I don't trust anyone else to not screw everything up! Possible solutions: * I thought: maybe an NIS server running on NT reading the SAM database could update the /etc/passwd file automatically. * Some knows of some hidden command line features of the GUI migration tool * Someone at Netapp could provide some sort of support and fix the dos based tool or make something work properly. (Sorry, but I've been sending this question to Netapp and our local suppliers for about 11 months now and I'm fed up with the lack of response I'm getting) * Someone could explain if this wafl.default_nt_user is in any way connected * Maybe someone knows something more (reason for writing). Help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Marom Plawner ITI Systems Group Manager Comverse Network Systems

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rdate
by Priebe, Jason 26 Nov '99

26 Nov '99

Anybody else had trouble getting rdate to work properly on a filer? I'm trying to get rdate on my F720 to contact a Linux server to get the time, and it comes back with the message "rdate: no response from <myhostnamehere>" The Linux box is definitely listening for connections on port 37, and it seems to be responding fine when other boxes make requests to it. I'm pretty sure it's not related to the F720's network configuration. I wish I could test it against other time servers, but it lives on a private network. Jason Priebe WRAL OnLine http://www.wral-tv.com/

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Misc equipment
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25 Nov '99

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disk/canisters needed desperately!!!
by George Kahler 25 Nov '99

25 Nov '99

I am in a desperate need of 7 x 9GB SCSI disks and canisters for the Eurologic black shelf for my F520. If there is anyone out there that can help please let me know. George ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Kahler e-mail: george(a)yorku.ca Sr. Systems Administrator humans: (416) 736-5257 x.22699 Computing Services, York University machines: (416) 736-5830 Ontario, Canada, M3J-1P3

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RE: Problems with file dates
by Garrett Burke 25 Nov '99

25 Nov '99

Hi Dave, Is the data in these files ok or is it corrupt? If it's corrupt then I'd have a look at what version of Win95 is running and has it been patched. What you might be seeing is file corruption due to caching on the client and this might be resulting in the incorrect dates. Another thing to look for is virus scanners on the Win95 clients which are being run against the filer. Some of these do funny things - like changing the archive bit so all your files now end up in an incremental backup. Good luck, GB > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Atkin [SMTP:dla1@york.ac.uk] > Sent: 25 November 1999 09:07 > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Problems with file dates > > We are finding an increasing number of user files (several thousand files > at present) with bizarre dates, eg > > -rwx--x--x 1 rfx3 ug93 49 Dec 27 1931 > /usr/fsa/ug93/rfx3/letter-home > -rwx--x--x 1 socx12 socs 460 Jul 22 1948 > /usr/fsa/extn/socx12/nov2nd > > The dates display mainly in the 1930s although there are a few around the > year 2009! These files seem to have been created over CIFS from PCs > running Windows 95. > ------------------------------------------------------ ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are solely for the use of the individual or organisation to whom they are addressed. If you have received this mail in error please notify the system administrator at +353 1 6399700 or by email to hostmaster(a)msc.ie This email message has been swept for computer viruses. Managed Solutions Corporation, Enterprise Customer Relationship Management, Workflow and Contract Administration. Tel: 353 1 639 9700 Fax: 353 1 639 9701 Don't forget to visit our website at http://www.msc.ie ********************************************************************

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RE: Cisco pings NetApp
by Plawner, Marom 25 Nov '99

25 Nov '99

Yes, we have that, too. If you use *nix and do a 'ping -f' to the filer, it responds with about 87% packet loss. I asked our local supplier about this and they told me this is an intended design, and does not affect the performance of the machine. -----Original Message----- From: Krzysztof Miller [mailto:tytus@lucent.com] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 9:54 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Cisco pings NetApp Hi, I ahve two filers F740 and F520. It happens for both of them. Cisco router pings filer and sucess rate is about 90%. We have switched network and it doesn't matter if filer has 100Mb halfduplex or full duplex. If Cisco pings SUN machine (the same network) success rate is 100 %. Does anybody seen something similiar ? best regards -- _____________________________________________________________ Krzysztof M. Miller, CIO Poland email : tytus(a)lucent.com phone : +48 52 3491845 fax : +48 52 3463033 mobile: +48 601 358032 _____________________________________________________________

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Wincenter Pro, excel 97 and netapp problem
by Krzysztof Miller 25 Nov '99

25 Nov '99

Hi, I am new on this list. Let me introduce myself - my name is Krzysztof Miller, I work for Lucent Technologies CIO dept, in Poland. We have F520 running 5.1.2 . Did anybody had problems with Wincenter Pro (or Cytrix Winframe) and NetApp ? We have following problem - when excel 97 session is open when you log off from wincenter, it deletes file, which is opened. NCD support suggest to upgrade system to 4.3.4D9, but I have 5.1.2 regards -- _____________________________________________________________ Krzysztof M. Miller, CIO Poland email : tytus(a)lucent.com phone : +48 52 3491845 fax : +48 52 3463033 mobile: +48 601 358032 _____________________________________________________________

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