All,
Since you were all so helpful last time with regards to my TSM questions (and thanks for that!) I have run into another problem I'd like to pick your collective brains over.
We have a CIFS only environment running CDOT and have a requirement to provide Directory SymLinks in a users home directory. I've managed to find fairly decent documentation on how to do this on 7-Mode systems but it seems lacking for CDOT. We use to use mklink (or some other powershell hackery) to create the symlinks but this doesn't work when talking to the new CIFS SVM.
Has anyone managed this? Do you have a recipe we can follow to implement this? I've managed to create the Symlink translation entry like so: PS > Get-NcCifsSymlink
CifsServer ShareName UnixPath CifsPath Locality ---------- --------- -------- -------- -------- REMOTE_SERVER REMOTE_SHARE /vol04/USERNAME/SymLink-Src/ / widelink
But I think the next step is to create a 'real' unix type symlink on /vol04/USERNAME/SymLink-Src/ however I can't see how to do this. The file-create-symlink OnTAPI API call doesn't (seem?) to exist for CDOT (yet?). The only other possible option as I see it is to configure NFS and then mount the drive over NFS to create this symlink but I would prefer to avoid this as we don't have a requirement for NFS on these shares currently.
Any help is greatly received as always!
Cheers.
Hey James,
This sounds like an api issue more than anything. Try the interfaces communities page here with this question if you haven't already:
https://communities.netapp.com/community/interfaces_and_tools/interfaces
I can't imagine there not being any zapi calls to create a symlink in volumes in cDOT.
Maarten
On 8/28/2014 2:41 AM, jamesr wrote:
All,
Since you were all so helpful last time with regards to my TSM questions (and thanks for that!) I have run into another problem I'd like to pick your collective brains over.
We have a CIFS only environment running CDOT and have a requirement to provide Directory SymLinks in a users home directory. I've managed to find fairly decent documentation on how to do this on 7-Mode systems but it seems lacking for CDOT. We use to use mklink (or some other powershell hackery) to create the symlinks but this doesn't work when talking to the new CIFS SVM.
Has anyone managed this? Do you have a recipe we can follow to implement this? I've managed to create the Symlink translation entry like so: PS > Get-NcCifsSymlink
CifsServer ShareName UnixPath CifsPath Locality
REMOTE_SERVER REMOTE_SHARE /vol04/USERNAME/SymLink-Src/ / widelink
But I think the next step is to create a 'real' unix type symlink on /vol04/USERNAME/SymLink-Src/ however I can't see how to do this. The file-create-symlink OnTAPI API call doesn't (seem?) to exist for CDOT (yet?). The only other possible option as I see it is to configure NFS and then mount the drive over NFS to create this symlink but I would prefer to avoid this as we don't have a requirement for NFS on these shares currently.
Any help is greatly received as always!
Cheers.
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jamesr -
Maarten Lippmann