CIFS Home Directories Creation
We have been researching how to implement CIFS home directories in our environment. We need to be able to automate the folder creation process for a user. Can anyone confirm that NetApp does not...
View ArticleUnable to access CIFS share by name
Ran into a strange problem here, hoping someone can point me in the right direction. We have two Windows 2008 R2 servers that are unable to access a UNC path to an SVM when using the DNS name of the...
View Articlesetting NTFS permissions on a root share which is hidden
Hi, I'm hoping I can get some help with this. I have a share that is a hidden share that is set up in Netapp 7 mode as "xxxx$". I need to change the NTFS permissions on the root of this share, so...
View Articledynamic home directories and DFS
Hi Folks, in my current environment I am looking for using dynamic home drives functionality on CDOT.. by spreading the users home folders on different volumes spread across all the nodes.. with...
View ArticlePreserve ACL when migrating files from Solaris to NFSv4
Hi, I am going to migrate files from a Solaris server to NetApp Ontap 9 filer As many files in the Solaris server have ACL in it, I shared the NetApp filer as NFSv4. However, it seems that when files...
View Articlewrong uid gid for old files
Hello all. I am currently in the test phase for sharing our volumes via CIFS and NFSv4 w/ Kerberos.Currently we have only CIFS shares on that SVM, with NTFS style on all volumes and different...
View ArticleThe question number 1000001 regarding CIFS performance issue
Hello, I know you will post me 10000 answers about CISCO switches about TCP frame window and so on. But I want to know, WHY I BUY THE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE HW WITH THIS ISSUE IN...
View ArticleIsolated NFS mount per VM
Hello, I have an implementation question on NFS exports. We're in the process of migrating our KVM virtual machines from local storage on our hypervisors (Proxmox using KVM) to our new NetApp array....
View ArticleSlow NFS Performance
Hi all,We're currently running a pair of FAS8020s, running OnTap 8.3.2P6 as NFS shares with quite a large number of files per volume. These are then accessed by Linux clients via NFS4. The primary...
View ArticleVolume information missing in FPolicy request for NFS
Hi, I have configured NetApp FPolicy on a NFS volume. The FPolicy server I have developed get requests from NetApp. I am filtering the following operations (NFS_REN, NFS_REN_DIR, NFS_DEL, NFS_DEL_DIR,...
View ArticleMissing FPolicy requests when basic attributes of a file are modified
Hi, I have configured NetApp FPolicy on a SMB share. The FPolicy server I have developed get requests from NetApp. I am enabled all SMB filters (open, close, setattr, delete, delete_dir, rename,...
View ArticleExporting a Volume with RW but without Root
Greetings everyone. I am troubleshooting the NFS export permission. I have exported a volume with option -sec=sys,rw=192.168.10.0/24, and it is successfully mounted from a linux clinet in the network...
View ArticleCifs namespace design question
We just recently moved to cdot from 7mode and Im going through recreating our cifs shares on the newer system. For some reason Im having trouble wrapping myself around this namespace and junction...
View ArticleRestrict CIFS shares by one of the IP address of a filer
Hi all, I would like to know if there is a way to do this :- Add many IP adresses to a filer. Each IP from different VLANs- Create cifs shares or NFS exports only accessible from one of theses...
View ArticleONTAP 9.x AND SAMBA SERVER
Hi everybody. yes, I know that is not supported but I would to know if somebody have had experiences on joining a CIFS SVM to an emulated Windows 2008R2 domain and its domain controller using a Samba...
View ArticleDeleting a File on Windows 10 does not send FPolicy SMB_DEL request
Hi, I have configured NetApp FPolicy on a SMB share. The FPolicy server I have developed get requests from NetApp. I am enabled all SMB filters (open, close, setattr, delete, delete_dir, rename,...
View ArticleFailed to join AD server for CIFS setup : Wrong Realm in request
We have two FS2040 filers: fs-bei-01 and fs-bei-02 Their CIFS service is OK in current domain. We planned to change the DC server. I tried to terminate CIFS service and run cifs setup on fs-bei-01,...
View ArticleNetApp integration with Strongbox for data archiving
Hello All, I am working on spinning up a StrongBox tape archiving solution. We use a NetApp SAN in our enviroment for file shares and are looking to offload some of that old data into an archive to...
View ArticleNetApp to another NAS
Hey all, we recently bought a QNAP NAS for our server to backup a few files thats on the NetApp. When i tried to replicate a sync task between QNAP and NetApp i got an error and anything i do, it just...
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