That interesting (re: home folders), it was me who told them about that too :-)
I'll drop you a mail directly when I get chance to look at our environment.
Thanks, Darren.
-----Original Message----- From: Willeke, Jochen [mailto:Jochen.Willeke@wincor-nixdorf.com] Sent: 09 July 2008 14:00 To: Darren Sykes; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Backup Operators group on filer
Hi Darren,
no problem about the cifs superuser :D. At least i do know now, that this is available in Ontag GX.
Of course we have asked expand but no feedback so far. The only hint we got from them was that netapps "cifs homedir" can cause some kind of problems. But we do not use this functionality at all.
Let's see if we get this working without the need of domain or filer-admin account.
Rgds
Jochen
-----Original Message----- From: Darren Sykes [mailto:Darren.Sykes@csr.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:02 PM To: Willeke, Jochen; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Backup Operators group on filer
Jochen,
We use both GX and 7G so I'm continually confusing the technology! I've certainly done something similar on 7G previously.
I'll have a play with our 7G boxes and attempt to get them working with caching.
Also, have you tried speaking to Expand. I'm told they use Netapp and their own products internally so they may have first hand experience of this.
Thanks, Darren.
-----Original Message----- From: Willeke, Jochen [mailto:Jochen.Willeke@wincor-nixdorf.com] Sent: 09 July 2008 09:29 To: Darren Sykes; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Backup Operators group on filer
Hi,
i just found out that the "cifs superuser" is only available in Ontap 10 :/
Sadly we do have 7.2.4 so still some way to go.
Rgds and thanks anyway
Jochen
-----Original Message----- From: Darren Sykes [mailto:Darren.Sykes@csr.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:57 PM To: Willeke, Jochen; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Backup Operators group on filer
We use Expand boxes with our filers, though we don't do scheduled replication of data.
Have you attempted adding the service account as a CIFS superuser (which effectively gives it access to all files)? If you consider that too insecure, then you may have to reconsider caching files (after all, it can't cache them if it can't read them).
Darren
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Willeke, Jochen Sent: 08 July 2008 10:11 To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Backup Operators group on filer
Hi toasters,
we are currently testing expand boxes to boost our cifs access from remote locations to our centralized Netapp filers.
Sadly the expand boxes need to have access to the cifs files in order to replicate them to the remote boxes. When accessing files of course the normal user-rights of the user accessing the files are used.
What i did is, i put the service-user into the "Backup Operators" group on the filer, but without success. When i try to replicate the cifs-shares i always get error messages that the user is not allowed to open the files.
With the "Administrators" group on the filer it worked. But this is not an option in my eyes, as this right is too high and in case a user removes the "Administrators" group from a folder the expand box will fail to replicate this folder as well.
Has anybody a good idea or even deployed expand boxes for cifs-acceleration with netapp?
Regards and thanks in advance
Jochen