I realize that the responses I received on this thread weren't posted to the group, so I'll give a quick overview of the e-mail's I received:
Problem that users from the NT domain must be migrated into the /etc/passwd file (using the dos based on beta GUI based tool) to be able to give a users@tree quota. Responses: This is not unique to my system. It is in fact built this way. I've been told that this should be changed in an upcoming release (less than 12 months, hopefully). Quote, "The quota system within WAFL needs to be wired to the NTFS metadata that is maintained in the NTFS and MIXED file system styles. Currently it is only wired to the UNIX notion of ownership, which is why the UNIX<->NT user mappings are currently necessary to make user and group quotas work for Windows users." My Reaction: 12 months!!!!
Problem: An NT based NIS server and make the NetApp a client. Anyone know of one? Responses: Good idea, nope, we don't.
Problem: The DOS based migration tool crashes, can someone at NetApp fix it? Response: Nope. We don't even have the source, and we don't support it. My Reaction: This is a BAD answer. The NetApp filer provides a broken functionality (see first problem above), and the only interim solution isn't supported.
Problem: Maybe the GUI version of the migration tool has hidden command line switches which can make it scriptable? Response: Nope. Why don't you just write your own script automatically update your /etc/passwd file? My Reaction: I bought the NetApp Filer since it's supposed to be a "black box" (ok, blue). The concept of the filer is that it is a simple, closed system that you just plug in a go with. If I wanted a system which I have to start building tools for, I'd download Linux for free and do it myself. (Or run Novell, or suffer with speed of NT.) Speed wasn't the issue, NetApp people... simplicity was. I don't need "just go and program it yourself" answers. I bought this for a CIFS environment, not NFS. I don't come from the "just build it in Perl" side of the tracks. Since you offer more functionality, you just understand your customer based and how the NT System Admins are different than the Unix System Admins.
Problem: Maybe the wafl.nt_user.default option is connected? Response: No, read the man page. My Reaction: Right, good idea.
Thanks to all of your responses. For those of you wanting to go into CIFS or using CIFS and wanting to go into quotas, I was given a suggestion to just limit the size of the /users folder. In theory it isn't a bad idea, but I'll tell you from the point of view of a company with about 4,000 people using the filer as a home directory, people will use it all up and fast! Not putting a quota won't work.
- Marom