With the advent of the F840, we are thinking of doing some massive server consolidation: using a F840 to replace many existing nfs/cifs servers among different user groups.

What are the issues with sharing a filer among different user groups? I can see:

1) uid issues: Dept A is already using uid 101 for user smith, and Dept B has a different smith, or has a 101 for a different users ... etc.

2) security issues: we want to make absolutely sure Dept A cannot see or mount or share Dept B's data.

3) what if Dept A is using a different DNS than Dept B's? I don't think we can run 2 different resolvers, one per exported volumes ...

3) similarly, for NIS, and NT domains.

Any insights, comments are appreciated.

Xt

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