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