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jCIFS Support??
I have an application group who are trying to create a "roll-your-own" CIFS/SMB client to run on AIX and access SMB shares on an Isilon running 7.2.1.3. The first question at this point would be - is it supported by Dell/EMC. The answer in the Compatability and support document is a bit too generic to provide an answer. So.... I have two questions:
1. Does EMC support jCIFS based clients? I have an SR opened for this question.
2. Does anyone have any experience with custom written clients based on jCIFS?
Any additional insight would be appreciated.
cstacey
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December 8th, 2016 14:00
We do not test jCIFS clients and we know of cases where customer have had problems with them.
Cheers,
Chris
Peter_Sero
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December 8th, 2016 23:00
There is a recent KB: 000493096 -- or is that already a direct response to your SR?
-- Peter
sluetze
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December 9th, 2016 02:00
jcifs does only smb1 (afaik).
i would not recommend to implement anything on ancient protocols.
Idontwantascre2
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December 9th, 2016 05:00
Thanks sluetze,
Not being SMB2/SMB3 compliant would be a killer. Avoiding jCIFS is exactly my intent.
Idontwantascre2
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December 9th, 2016 05:00
Thanks Peter,
I haven't gotten a response to the SR yet so this KB will be very useful.
Idontwantascre2
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December 9th, 2016 05:00
Thanks Chris,
One more nail in it's coffin.
Idontwantascre2
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December 9th, 2016 06:00
If the task were mine to do I would certainly use NFS.
It's a long story but the developers want to be able to access a SMB share from an AIX server. I wasn't part of the design team so I'm not sure why they want to do this. I suspect the way that Isilon merges NTFS and POSIX permissions and ownership is a big factor. They seem to have a lot of trouble understanding what is going on and they keep having the same problems over and over.
umichklewis
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December 9th, 2016 06:00
Why not try NFS? AIX has good NFS support, and multiprotocol (NFS and CIFS access to the same data) is quite easy to do on Isilon, with a little pre-thought and planning.