Eric, thanks for the response. I was speaking with someone in the Gold Support queue. Not sure if he should be there if he's giving me bad info.
Anyhow, do you know if there's a way around the 1 to 1 account mapping requirement? We have 6 system account in NIS that I'd like to map to 1 NT account. My Netapp allowed for this, but SFU apparently doesn't. Any thoughts?
The answer you received is incorrect. You can use simple and advanced maps in SFU. You can click the box in the SFU management window to show the simple maps. Advanced maps will be displayed if configured.
I don't believe there is a way to do this. I just tried to do it via both the GUI and command line options for user name mapping and neither were successful in adding a 2nd UNIX user to the same Windows user. I believe this is a limitation because of the Windows GUID that is being used. The filers from NetApp are based around a vxworks kernel, and therefore is a UNIX based NAS appliance. With that you can just modify the /etc/passwd file to have the same UID for each of the same accounts as you would on any other UNIX / Linux based system. Windows maps each user account to a unique GUID that can not be duplicated easily.
A way that you can do this is to map a primary NIS group to a Windows group and give access to the share based on the group ID and not the User ID.
Message Edited by DELL-EricB on 12-02-2003 01:02 PM
Thanks for the tip, and quick response. As to the various GUIs, which should we be using? The SFU MMC has the ability to query the NT or NIS domain and allows for easier mapping. I could not find this capability within the Web Interface under Sharing Protocols. Did I miss it or is it not there?
Thanks again
-Sean
Message Edited by AcadianNetOp on 12-02-2003 01:34 PM
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Eric, thanks for the response. I was speaking with someone in the Gold Support queue. Not sure if he should be there if he's giving me bad info.
Anyhow, do you know if there's a way around the 1 to 1 account mapping requirement? We have 6 system account in NIS that I'd like to map to 1 NT account. My Netapp allowed for this, but SFU apparently doesn't. Any thoughts?
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I don't believe there is a way to do this. I just tried to do it via both the GUI and command line options for user name mapping and neither were successful in adding a 2nd UNIX user to the same Windows user. I believe this is a limitation because of the Windows GUID that is being used. The filers from NetApp are based around a vxworks kernel, and therefore is a UNIX based NAS appliance. With that you can just modify the /etc/passwd file to have the same UID for each of the same accounts as you would on any other UNIX / Linux based system. Windows maps each user account to a unique GUID that can not be duplicated easily.
A way that you can do this is to map a primary NIS group to a Windows group and give access to the share based on the group ID and not the User ID.
Message Edited by DELL-EricB on 12-02-2003 01:02 PM
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Eric,
Thanks for the tip, and quick response. As to the various GUIs, which should we be using? The SFU MMC has the ability to query the NT or NIS domain and allows for easier mapping. I could not find this capability within the Web Interface under Sharing Protocols. Did I miss it or is it not there?
Thanks again
-Sean
Message Edited by AcadianNetOp on 12-02-2003 01:34 PM