Stephen,
We are mounting multiple filers (2 F740's, 2 F760's), running OT 5.3.2D2, using NFS on Linux running on a Compaq. We are almost exclusively a CIFS environment and had wanted to do exactly what you want. However, there are known problems with OT that prevent using Samba (for example) to do a direct CIFS mount. So, we have a mixed ACL on the filers, run both CIFS and NFS, and mount the filers from Linux as NFS. It does require some tricks with WAFL settings to insure that non-trusted UNIX users are defaulted to the proper NT user domain account, and you have to make sure that the wafl options for unicode are set to both convert and create. If you convert from 5.2.x or prior, and your filer data has been created through CIFS, you will HAVE TO go through some procedure to open every directory to force conversion. If you do not, any directory not converted will be inaccessible in its snapshot, and snapshots cannot be converted.
--srs
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Losen [mailto:scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 12:54 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Anyone mounting filer on Linux with smbfs ?
Linux provides a SMB fs type and we are trying to mount a netapp CIFS share on a linux box, but with no luck. We are using unix authentication on the filer from a NIS map. We have no Windows or NT authentication set up at all. Windows and NT attach to CIFS shares on the filer just fine, using cleartext passwords. And they also attach to a linux samba server just fine, with unix authentication and cleartext passwords.
But we can't get linux to mount a smb fs from the netapp.
We would like to do this because we expect a large number of users to run linux on their desktops and we would love to not have to manage the exporting nightmare that NFS would require -- especially when most folks will be getting IP addresses via DHCP. It would be much more convenient (for us sysadmins) for linux users to just mount their home dir as a smb fs type, and they authenticate with their unix password.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 804-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support