NX4- Unix and windows having access to NFS or CIFS at the same time

PLease refer to the Managing Celerra for a Multiprotocol Environment document attched.

Hope this helps.

Hi Olivier,

any updates there? did it work?

Rainer

Hi Rainier I didn't try that yet.....

Not sure if my question was clear either !!!

What I'm asking is "does NX4 support CIFS and NFS on the same share" if yes how can i do this ?

again many thanks for your help on this

Hi,

yes it does - if you have both protocols licensed you just create a CIFS share and a NFS share that point to the same directory.

However for most uses cases it makes sense to first review the access policy options and the user mapping

Otherwise you get the default usermapper mapping (which isnt a "real" mapping) and NFS users that arent root dont have access with the default umask

I would suggest to at least read the concepts sections of the CIFS multiprotocol and Usermapping manuals that are available from Powerlink

Rainer

Thank you for your help on this , very much appriciated

I'm not very familiar with NX4 and I was wondering if you have some kind of steps by steps to achieve this ?

Mnagny thanks,

Olivier

Hi Olivier,

you're welcome.

IMHO - in order to implement a good multi-protocol setup you should know both the basics of Windows and Unix user management and security and the capabilities of the Celerra.

I would suggest to at least read the concepts section of the following manuals (available from Powerlink - also part of the Celerra doc CD):

Configuring and Managing CIFS on Celerra

Managing Celerra for a Multiprotocol Environment

Configuring EMC Celerra User Mapping

Configuring Virtual Data Movers for EMC Celerra

then you decide what usermapping method you want

then you decide which access policy you want if you need any modifying params

then just create the CIFS and NFS shares and test it

Rainer

P.S.: there is also a eLearning (online) training from EMC Education called “Celerra Multi-Protocol File Sharing Concepts”

you're welcome

were you able to find the online training ?

It should be available from education.emc.com with the ID MR-5WN-NSCMFC

regards

Rainer

You're Welcome

for the benefit of others - could you describe how you found it and and if it costs training credits?

Rainer

Hi Rainer,

I did many thanks again.