Hello to all:
We have an NIS/NFS network with NetApps for primary storage and backup, mostly workgroup-based workstations, with a mixture of Windows boxen ranging from 9x - XP. We also need to have clear-text password enabled for drive mappings.
The XP users are unable to map drives to the NetApps due to Microsoft's changes to SMB. Thus, we have a temporary workaround of having them map to a UNIX server instead.
What have people with XP done to resolve this NetApps/SMB problem? How about those people especially in workgroup-based environments?
What pros/cons is there to a Samba-based DC solution vs a Windows-based DC solutions?
Our DNS is UNIX-based and we will not turn on dynamic DNS. We also upstream our DNS info to a master primary out of our control.
Thanks for any insight.
Scott
Hello to all:
We have an NIS/NFS network with NetApps for primary storage and backup, mostly workgroup-based workstations, with a mixture of Windows boxen ranging from 9x - XP. We also need to have clear-text password enabled for drive mappings.
The XP users are unable to map drives to the NetApps due to Microsoft's changes to SMB. Thus, we have a temporary workaround of having them map to a UNIX server instead.
What have people with XP done to resolve this NetApps/SMB problem? How about those people especially in workgroup-based environments?
This is netapp bug 58190 and should be fixed in a later release.
We are running a patched release that has this bug fixed -- 6.1.1R2P1D1
You should probably open a case and talk to the support folks. I doubt that you want to install this just because we did. It may not even be available for download anymore.
We noticed that after we upgraded that folks running W2000 without service pack 1 could no longer login to CIFS using unix auth and clear text passwords. When W2000 first came out it had a bug and netapp reverse engineered ONTAP to work. Then service pack 1 came out and fixed the bug, so ONTAP had to be fixed again. For awhile ONTAP would work with W2000 with or without SP1 installed. But it looks like now you MUST have SP1 installed. Again, this is ONLY when using unix passwd authentication on the filer, i.e., workgroup login with clear text passwords. I believe CIFS auth via a DC works fine across the board.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support
The last remark of Steve is correct. There are no authentication problems with XP when you uses a DC. It works fine.
Reinoud
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Losen" scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu To: "Scott Ehrlich" scott@ai.mit.edu Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 12:22 AM Subject: Re: XP and NetApps
Hello to all:
We have an NIS/NFS network with NetApps for primary storage and backup, mostly workgroup-based workstations, with a mixture of Windows boxen ranging from 9x - XP. We also need to have clear-text password
enabled
for drive mappings.
The XP users are unable to map drives to the NetApps due to Microsoft's changes to SMB. Thus, we have a temporary workaround of having them
map
to a UNIX server instead.
What have people with XP done to resolve this NetApps/SMB problem? How about those people especially in workgroup-based environments?
This is netapp bug 58190 and should be fixed in a later release.
We are running a patched release that has this bug fixed -- 6.1.1R2P1D1
You should probably open a case and talk to the support folks. I doubt that you want to install this just because we did. It may not even be available for download anymore.
We noticed that after we upgraded that folks running W2000 without service pack 1 could no longer login to CIFS using unix auth and clear text passwords. When W2000 first came out it had a bug and netapp reverse engineered ONTAP to work. Then service pack 1 came out and fixed the bug, so ONTAP had to be fixed again. For awhile ONTAP would work with W2000 with or without SP1 installed. But it looks like now you MUST have SP1 installed. Again, this is ONLY when using unix passwd authentication on the filer, i.e., workgroup login with clear text passwords. I believe CIFS auth via a DC works fine across the board.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support
Hi Scott,
This is bug 58190.
Please call Tech Support as a fix is available in a patch release.
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=58190
Thanks!
-Puneet ________
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
Hello to all:
We have an NIS/NFS network with NetApps for primary storage and backup, mostly workgroup-based workstations, with a mixture of Windows boxen ranging from 9x - XP. We also need to have clear-text password enabled for drive mappings.
The XP users are unable to map drives to the NetApps due to Microsoft's changes to SMB. Thus, we have a temporary workaround of having them map to a UNIX server instead.
What have people with XP done to resolve this NetApps/SMB problem? How about those people especially in workgroup-based environments?
What pros/cons is there to a Samba-based DC solution vs a Windows-based DC solutions?
Our DNS is UNIX-based and we will not turn on dynamic DNS. We also upstream our DNS info to a master primary out of our control.
Thanks for any insight.
Scott
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