Michael,
I do not have the specifics on the bug. It came out ina conversation with a Netapp engineer that ranged over a number of topics. We had been told that 5.3.2 had support for Samba, but that turned out not to be true. If you did use Samba to connect to a CIFS share on a 5.3.2 box, you would not be able to see any file extensions or directory ACLs.
As for your setup to allow WinNT ACL access, I guess I'm not quite clear on why this would be a problem. As I pointed out, we allow users to upload files and directories using the NFS mount, which the netapp translates to Unicode and does the necessary ACL mappings to handle the shift to CIFS as long as the parent directory has been defined as a CIFS share. The Unicode support is part of 5.2.3 and 5.3.2, but that may be an issue for you.
Hope I've been of some help.
--srs
-----Original Message----- From: Michael van Elst [mailto:mlelstv@xlink.net] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 2:29 PM To: Sam Schorr Cc: 'Michael van Elst'; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: CIFS, UNIX and ACLs
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:33:17PM -0700, Sam Schorr wrote:
Michael,
Hi Sam,
We tried to do this but there is a known bug in OnTap that prevents Samba from correctly opening a CIFS share on the filers.
this is interesting, are there any details about this bug ?
We had to revert to using NFS mounts, but this has not caused any problems for NT access. Essentially, we are allowing people to ftp files into directories/subdirectories that are primarily accessed through CIFS shares from a Linux system. I don't know what you may lose doing it this way -
we
haven't had any issues.
My problem is to prepare files and directories for WinNT clients. I can easily create the directories and write files using NFS, but I cannot set WinNT access lists which are important for the application.
Regards, Michael van Elst
--srs
-----Original Message----- From: Michael van Elst [mailto:mlelstv@xlink.net] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 5:10 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: CIFS, UNIX and ACLs
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for a method to access a CIFS share residing on a NetApp- Filer from a UNIX client. In particular I am interested in maintaining NTFS-style ACLs.
Is anybody doing this successfully ?
Regards,
i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 6635 330 Xlink - Network Information Centre / fax: +49 721 6635 349 Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email:
hostmaster@xlink.net
[ Xlink Internet Service GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe
]
[ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Michael Rotert
]
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:58:10PM -0700, Sam Schorr wrote:
Michael,
Hi Sam,
I do not have the specifics on the bug. It came out ina conversation with a Netapp engineer that ranged over a number of topics. We had been told that 5.3.2 had support for Samba, but that turned out not to be true. If you did use Samba to connect to a CIFS share on a 5.3.2 box, you would not be able to see any file extensions or directory ACLs.
well, with Samba2.0.5 and ONTAP 5.1.2, I cannot even open a session.
As for your setup to allow WinNT ACL access, I guess I'm not quite clear on why this would be a problem. As I pointed out, we allow users to upload files and directories using the NFS mount, which the netapp translates to Unicode and does the necessary ACL mappings to handle the shift to CIFS as long as the parent directory has been defined as a CIFS share. The Unicode support is part of 5.2.3 and 5.3.2, but that may be an issue for you.
Let me clarify the problem a bit more.
The NT application is IIS4.0 with Frontpage extensions. Two (or more) NT-accounts need to access the files on a website: an anonymous account that is used by IIS4.0 when somebody browses through the site and one or more dedicated frontpage accounts that are allowed to modify the site. This is done by creating appropriate access control lists for all files and directories in the particular webspace.
The webspace is also accessible from a UNIX host via NFS which performs the initial configuration and also hosts other applications that write to the webspace. Files created this way are owned by the frontpage account but do not have access lists, instead the filer does the usual UNIX mode -> ACL translation.
The written files must be accessible by the annonymous user which means that the appropriate access lists must be created. There is no way to make it work with the translated UNIX modes.
Currently we do this by running a slow script on the NT box, but I would prefer to handle all these maintenance tasks on the UNIX side.
Setting access lists can be done by speaking the NT dialect of the SMB protocol to the filer, which unfortunately happens to be undocumented.
I am now searching for a piece of software, commercial product or even some other kind of information that lets me do this.
Regards, Michael van Elst
Hope I've been of some help.
--srs
-----Original Message----- From: Michael van Elst [mailto:mlelstv@xlink.net] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 2:29 PM To: Sam Schorr Cc: 'Michael van Elst'; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: CIFS, UNIX and ACLs
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:33:17PM -0700, Sam Schorr wrote:
Michael,
Hi Sam,
We tried to do this but there is a known bug in OnTap that prevents Samba from correctly opening a CIFS share on the filers.
this is interesting, are there any details about this bug ?
We had to revert to using NFS mounts, but this has not caused any problems for NT access. Essentially, we are allowing people to ftp files into directories/subdirectories that are primarily accessed through CIFS shares from a Linux system. I don't know what you may lose doing it this way -
we
haven't had any issues.
My problem is to prepare files and directories for WinNT clients. I can easily create the directories and write files using NFS, but I cannot set WinNT access lists which are important for the application.
Regards, Michael van Elst
--srs
-----Original Message----- From: Michael van Elst [mailto:mlelstv@xlink.net] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 5:10 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: CIFS, UNIX and ACLs
Hello everyone,
I'm looking for a method to access a CIFS share residing on a NetApp- Filer from a UNIX client. In particular I am interested in maintaining NTFS-style ACLs.
Is anybody doing this successfully ?
Regards,
i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 6635 330 Xlink - Network Information Centre / fax: +49 721 6635 349 Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email:
hostmaster@xlink.net
[ Xlink Internet Service GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe
]
[ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Michael Rotert
]
i.A. Michael van Elst / phone: +49 721 6635 330 Xlink - Network Information Centre / fax: +49 721 6635 349 Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3 /\ link http://nic.xlink.net/ D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /_______ email: hostmaster@xlink.net [ Xlink Internet Service GmbH, Sitz Karlsruhe ] [ Amtsgericht Karlsruhe HRB 8161, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Michael Rotert ]
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