We are running a Netapp F820, NetApp Release 6.0.1R3. I finally got our Netapp setup to allow windows users to access files (specifically the users home directory). As long as the user is on a PC that logs into the domain, they can access the files without any problems.
We have serveral users that use laptops and do not login to the domain. They cannot access any shares on the netapp. They have accounts on the win2k server and can access files on the windows server. If I change the laptop so that they are logging into the domain, it works. no problems.
When users are on the road and/or accessing our network via VPN, it would be difficult for them to login to the domain. Is there a workaround?
Any suggestions would be appreciated,
Please let me know if you need more info.
Thanks, Steve
---------------------------------- Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics Design Engineering Center - East Durham, NC
Sure, they are some tricks to turn around this
firstly , you could set the options cifs.guest_account to any valid account in your domain (create a "voyager" account for example). Then anybody on ur network, trying to connect to the Filer, but having a valid account would be map by default to the voyager account. Is it your charge to manage rights regarding the Voyager user (ie read-only for example). also, u could ask to ur itinerant user to map a drive to the filer using the option "connect under another account". At this point a window should popup where they can fill up "DOMAIN\User" and the corresponding "password" (watch out for the encryption of the password). This way, everything should be just fine.
Hope it helps.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Turner" sturner@msai.mea.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: File access via Windows (laptops)
We are running a Netapp F820, NetApp Release 6.0.1R3. I finally got our Netapp setup to allow windows users to access files (specifically the users home directory). As long as the user is on a PC that logs into the domain, they can access the files without any problems.
We have serveral users that use laptops and do not login to the domain. They cannot access any shares on the netapp. They have accounts on the win2k server and can access files on the windows server. If I change the laptop so that they are logging into the domain, it works. no problems.
When users are on the road and/or accessing our network via VPN, it would be difficult for them to login to the domain. Is there a workaround?
Any suggestions would be appreciated,
Please let me know if you need more info.
Thanks, Steve
Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics Design Engineering Center - East Durham, NC
Sure, they are some tricks to turn around this
firstly , you could set the options cifs.guest_account to any valid account in your domain (create a "voyager" account for example). Then anybody on ur network, trying to connect to the Filer, but having a valid account would be map by default to the voyager account. Is it your charge to manage rights regarding the Voyager user (ie read-only for example). also, u could ask to ur itinerant user to map a drive to the filer using the option "connect under another account". At this point a window should popup where they can fill up "DOMAIN\User" and the corresponding "password" (watch out for the encryption of the password). This way, everything should be just fine.
Hope it helps.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Turner" sturner@msai.mea.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: File access via Windows (laptops)
We are running a Netapp F820, NetApp Release 6.0.1R3. I finally got our Netapp setup to allow windows users to access files (specifically the users home directory). As long as the user is on a PC that logs into the domain, they can access the files without any problems.
We have serveral users that use laptops and do not login to the domain. They cannot access any shares on the netapp. They have accounts on the win2k server and can access files on the windows server. If I change the laptop so that they are logging into the domain, it works. no problems.
When users are on the road and/or accessing our network via VPN, it would be difficult for them to login to the domain. Is there a workaround?
Any suggestions would be appreciated,
Please let me know if you need more info.
Thanks, Steve
Mitsubishi Electric and Electronics Design Engineering Center - East Durham, NC
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