On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:42:20PM +0100, Stephane Bentebba wrote:
Frank Bonnet wrote:
2 - Connect to the filer directly using CIFS after authentication
You told windoz users have their home dir in Samba, so I would guess that's not possible. What could be possible is to set up DFS (directory file system) :
- the client contact Samba and gives the ressource it would use,
- Samba reply where the ressource can be found (which server : here the
Filer),
- client then contact the Filer and here we go again.
BUT As far as I know, Samba doesnt support DFS for now, ... so : for me there is no way to do so (without counting that in this mode, the Filer should be able to serve data over CIFS - did you bought the license ?)
For me the best would be to buy a windoz PDC and a CIFS license for your Filer. I can be wrong as the time pass, but I was right the last year. Alternatively, wait or ask to Samba devellopment team to make possible to connect a Netapp Filer in their domain.
The issue of Samba->Filer on CIFS is that NetApp uses UNICODE for auth. Samba historically uses ASCII for auth.
However, Samba 3.0 (currently in alpha) claims: Major new features: -------------------
- Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte and UNICODE character sets.
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Dave Le Blanc Unix Systems Administrator Computer Science Department California Institute of Technology (626)395-2402