In my 10+ years of dealing with Netapp, I have never known them to remove a feature from OnTAP, and can't imagine them starting now- especially one used by thousands of installations today. Perhaps your users misunderstood what they heard in training? A trainer would also never disclose that kind of information in that forum as presumably not everyone in the room would be under NDA, and that kind of information, if true (and I suspect not) would be confidential.
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of JONES P.S. Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:13 AM To: Tracy Russell; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Mixed Mode
I trust this is an individual's surmise and no more. I have not heard of this remote possibility in any shape or form. We rely absolutely on mixed mode presentation to our users; its one of the keystone elements of our single authentication, single filestore architecture. Losing this would be too much to contemplate.
Paul Jones, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D. - Head of Systems Services, Information Technology Service, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE Email: p.s.jones@durham.ac.uk Phone/Fax: 0191 334 2749/2701
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Tracy Russell Sent: Wed 3/15/2006 2:19 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Mixed Mode
Does anyone know the future of the security mode -- "mixed mode"? Several co-workers returned from NetApp training stating that this particular mode is not encouraged and may be dropped in the not too distant future from NetApp support.
Has anyone else heard this or can confirm this to any degree? We are about to set up a new Filer and I'm trying to decide what to do with a volume that is currently configured for mixed mode security on an old Filer.
If anyone has experiences changes from mixed mode to either all CIFS or NFS, I'd appreciate their inputs as well.
Thanks.
Tracy