DSS as a Windows NAS

[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.

[silicon]

Our limited experience with DSS as NAS in a Windows environment with a large AD has followed a similar path - struggled with it for a while then gave in & used Windows server/s as the NAS. The posix rights was sort of ok (just), but system hardware instability meant the link between user accounts & directory rights got confused more than once, & meant some stressful work to correct! There is now the ability to back & restore this mapping, and quotas too, but I'm not that confident. In simpler situations (simpler rights) I think the NAS function is just fine.