Hi, all. One of my clients, for excellent reasons of its own, is migrating its domain controllers to Windows 2000 (which is the artist formerly known as NT 5). This means that their CIFS-running NetApps have to play nice.
I had been aware that NetApp had put a fix for this into 5.3D16, and when 5.3.2R1 came out I (naively, as it turned out) assumed that that fix would be included. So I brought up a borrowed test filer on 5.3.2R1, and found that it would happily register itself in an Windows-2000-controlled domain...once. If you shut CIFS down and restarted it, the filer would give up on finding a domain controller, and client accesses to the filer would time out. And then you often would not be able to cleanly terminate CIFS again; after 90 seconds of waiting, the filer would invite you to shut down the system using halt -d and send the resulting core dump to NAC. Heh.
A call to my friendly tech-support person revealed that the fix was actually not in 5.3.2R1, but was in 5.3.2D3. Aha. So I moved to 5.3.2D3, and now it's playing nice.
The build of W2K in play here was 2072.
Hope this helps other pioneers out there.
Brian
A call to my friendly tech-support person revealed that the fix was actually not in 5.3.2R1, but was in 5.3.2D3. Aha. So I moved to 5.3.2D3, and now it's playing nice.
Yep... That would be what you needed if you're getting into the Windows 2000 domain controller game (i.e. Win2K infrastructure, rather than just Win2K clients) , and we're obviously glad to hear it's done the trick for you.
More generally though, I'd like to take the opportunity to draw people's attention once again to the NetApp Windows 2000 Testing Alliance, which we've been running for many months now. Ensuring the interoperability of our filer products with Windows 2000 is of key importance to NetApp moving forward. As Brian has now found out, we've already done much of the work needed to achieve interoperability today, and it's a full 2 months or more before Win2K is currently slated to put in an appearance in its finished form (I told you we considered it important! :-)).
But... as there's still at least a couple of months left, we would very much like to hear from you if you're using filers in conjunction with Win2K. If you could take a moment to share your experiences, good or bad, at:
http://now.netapp.com/solutions/testing/
you will have a direct line into the folk whose mission it is to make the Windows NT to Windows 2000 transition a smooth one.
Keith
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