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December 9th, 2013 06:00
Issue with replication of FS on standalone CIFs servers
I have an ns4-480 at siteA running a standalone CIFs server.
I have another ns4-480 at siteB also running a standalone CIFs server.
I have created a file system and CIFs share at SiteA and replicated it to siteB. A local user was created at both sites to access the data.
However, although my user at siteB can mount the replicated share, they cannot see or access any files within that share. (I have confirmed that the files exist, by checking the directory in /nas/quota/slot_2).
My assumption is that the access permissions have also been replicated and have over-written any rights granted at siteB (I also cannot make any changes on the Security tab in MMC, as administrator at siteB now that the file system is replicated)
I think what I need to do is copy the user from siteA to siteB (or at least to create a user with the same SID). Is this possible with standalone CIFs servers?
Other information, in case it is relevant:-
Usermapper is running at both sites, with both set to Primary, but the database files appear to be empty.
We have other CIFs shares in place with local users, as well as NFSv4 shares with local users (NFSv4 users details are maintained in local passwd and group files), although none of these are replicated.
Both systems are running Dart 6.0.70-4
I have read various documents, but all seem to refer to domain authentication.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Rainer_EMC
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December 9th, 2013 13:00
Are you using VDM based CIFS servers ?
LWindley
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December 10th, 2013 02:00
Hi Rainer
We are not using VDMs.
I believe that I have found the answer - when the source share was first created, the user did not say they wanted it replicated, so we automatically ticked the check box to select a specific CIFs server. In my testing I found that if this box was not checked during the creation of the share, then users at the remote site could access the share that was created at that site correctly.
I am hoping that I can just remove the replication, and delete and recreate the share, without affecting the source data and the problem will be resolved. At worst, I will backup the data and recreate everything.
Sorry if I have wasted your time with this, but I had spent a couple of days, searching documents and testing things, before posting the question, and thought I had run out of ideas.