Is the FTP/SFTP server in VNXe3200 NAS share protocols unfinished/broken?

should work fine

looks like you are using a user/password that the 3200 cannot resolve

If you use the same user+pass with a CIFS share on the 3200 does it work ?

Is citynet.cwf the domain that the 3200 CIFS server is joined to ?

support should be able to pull the log files from the 3200 and get more details

for troubleshooting whether your ftp works at all you could also create a local user in the passwd file of the VDM like you do for NDMP

you just need to make sure that it either has a valid homedir or that default homedir options for ftp are set correcty

Yes. The VNXe3200 is joined to active directory domain "CITYNET.CWF".

I've tried creating a local user, even made it an administrator.

The homedir option is left to the default value of "/"

I see no options available nor is there any online help or documentation available that describes how to make and specify custom paths for any SFTP home directory for users (local or AD domain users) on the VNXe series. I am attempting to do all the configurations thru the Unisphere web GUI and whatever it presents me with and allows me to do, since the only command line access is via the ssh login with the service user, which is Horribly Crippled in what it is permitted to see and do in the linux-based VNXe3200 host operating system (which appears to be derived from SuSE, which is incredibly frustrating since I've been a Linux power user since SuSE first appeared in the world, and a Linux user for more than 20 years, beginning with SLS and Slackware in the early 1990's. )

All attempts to login with command line SFTP from another Linux box ,  using a local user created under the "Manage Administration" webgui page, get a response of "Permission Denied".

Using an active directory user/pass actually get a little further along, as evidenced by this dialog:

(Note: 172.21.5.120 is the ip addr of my NAS server on the VNXe3200)

[root@vmsyslog1 ~]# sftp voipbackup@citynet.cwf@172.21.5.120

Connecting to 172.21.5.120...

Enter your credentials to activate an SFTP session:

voipbackup@citynet.cwf@172.21.5.120's password:

Request for subsystem 'sftp' failed on channel 0

Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer

[root@vmsyslog1 ~]#

I did find one "Release Notes" for a previous version of the VNXe system software that claimed that a bug that caused something similar of an error whenever the NAS server was being accessed via SFTP over an LACP bonded physical ethernet linkage had been supposedly fixed in that earlier release, but I'm running the latest available release version 3.1.8.9340299.

I am using LACP-bonded ethernet ports on both storage processors to connect to a Cisco 3850 switch stack configured with etherchannel to carry the NAS/CIFS traffic from the VNXe3200 to my primary network. For iSCSI communications, I use a separate 10Gbps private network built around a pair of Extreme (brand name) 10G dedicated switches.

I was able to figure out what the problem was (it's definitely a defect IMHO) and implement a workaround/fix myself that gets my immediate needs functional... no thanks to EMC support who have been remarkably slow to respond back to my service request, as well as not very confident with their own meager knowledge about the VNXe3200. I get the distinct impression that all love for this model is going to get dropped like a hot potato as once its EOL date looms close.

I won't say what I found and how I worked around it either, since my kludge worked for me but isn't something I want spread around and might come back to haunt me.

could you please post your SR number to that I can take a look what your workaround is ?

I didn't give my workaround in the SR, I just merely closed it, with a note

that I was able to conjure up a workaround on my own.

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Ruby Neal

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Information Technology Dept.

City of Wichita Falls, TX

Ruby.Neal@wichitafallstx.gov

(940)761-7431

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 8:31 AM Rainer_EMC