DSS as a Windows NAS

[amscanada]

Yeah at this time we present an iSCSI lun to our windows file server and use the NAS part of DSS as a Disk based backup location.
No matter what I have tried I can not get the ACLS to work correctly with windows.

[cre8tif]

it is samba limitation; there are only 3 known rights ... read / write / execute based on user|group|others-everyone.

; in order to utilize all the 13 NTFS permissions; either mount an iSCSI LUN to the server so that it is formatted to NTFS block device or share from a Windows server and define the ACL from the server and then mapped users to the folders.

Good luck.

[amscanada]

Thank you that is what I was looking for.

[ottl05]

it is samba limitation; there are only 3 known rights ... read / write / execute based on user|group|others-everyone.

; in order to utilize all the 13 NTFS permissions; either mount an iSCSI LUN to the server so that it is formatted to NTFS block device or share from a Windows server and define the ACL from the server and then mapped users to the folders.

Good luck.

we´ve got now our DSS and I´m playing with it and testing it.
the iSCSI function works perfect and now I´m on the NAS side and have the same problems with the permissons.

what do you mean with "share from a Windows server"?
how could I share the NAS voulume from windows?

[cre8tif]

ok; sorry for the short clarification.

1. NAS with PDC/AD will still only support the RWX - Read Write Execute permission - POSIX limitation. There is no workaround this Samba POSIX limitation.

2. If u really need 2 use the NTFS permission; create an iSCSI target and mount it to your Windows Server 2000/2003 thru an iSCSI initiator.

3. Create a share folder with share permission of read and change for users.

4. Thereafter, define NTFS permission for sub-folders by choosing to inherit or not to inherit them from the top-level folders.

5. If you are planning on migrating from an NTFS drive on your Windows server to the iSCSI volume; download the Microsoft Resource Kit for Windows Server.

6. Use the ROBOCOPY.exe to effectively copy all the permission from local source folder into the iSCSI volume. This will not copy share permission; only NTFS permissions.

7. All you need to do after verifying the copy process is to compare the file/folder size/numbers.

8. Recreate some of the share permissions which should be a piece of cake by copying the former.

9. Unshare the source folder and recreate the same name; after that tell users they are ready to access the files on the larger NTFS volumes on Server 2003

[errolDC]

Linux has had native NTFS support for a while now. Try using openSUSE as an NFS head and share your NTFS filesystem with NFS.

I have not tried this as of yet, but it should work.


-Errol

[errolDC]

While I'm on this point, I like the idea of using a NFS head versus DSS. The reason is because you can have incredible redundancy via Heartbeat2, DRBD and multipathd.

Two SLES10 SP1 servers with the latest fuse and ntfsprogs from opensuse.org. Heartbeat2 and NFS backed by Open-E. What more can you ask for?!

[ITFCTECH]

We are having the same problem with the posix > windows limitations
It pretty much makes our DSS server useless for NAS SMB mounts
There are some shares that i want to publish using NAS and iscsi is not an option becuase we seperate iscsi traffic on a seperate switch the servers attached to iscsi are not an option for me to do file shares. Also we use iscsi for high throughput applications only.
For simple file shares ie word/excel docs i cant use the NAS function because the permissions just dont suit a windows environment.
Also why should i have to populate all my shares through iscsi for windows permissions to work when i bought a all in one solution that should let me use all the functions.

according to the feature list of DSS V6

Windows Active Directory / Primary Domain Controller Support

Open-E DSS V6 supports Windows Active Directory (AD), Primary Domain Controller (PDC), Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and AD & NIS User-/Group ID synchronization to leverage information about users, groups, systems and other resources stored in the Active Directory. The support of Access Control List (ACL) ensures that access rights of users are automatically taken over from the Domain.

Supported Network Clients and Network File Protocol

Open-E DSS V6 supports the file based protocols CIFS (Common Internet File System)/SMB, NFS (Network File System), FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTPS and Apple Talk enabling Windows, Linux, Unix and Macintosh clients to share data on the same server.