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January 12th, 2017 11:00
VNX / CIFS / Namespaces
Hello all. I'm trying to figure out how our current CIF environment is set up in regards to active directory and migrate to our new CIF server
OLDCIF - a VNX CIF server that has shares (example)
\\OLDCIF\homefolders
This CIF shows up under our DFS namespaces as
\\company.com\HOME
I'm struggling to figure out how this was created and we are able to use the domain name as the root. Everything I have read and tried requires you to be using a windows server based server as a namespace to be able to use \\company.com\xxxx but our current setup is in fact a VNX CIF server. I have the new CIF server created with shares, but i don't now how to publish it under \\company.com\NewShareFolders
Below is a screenshot of the current DFS configuration using the the "OLDCIF" server on the VNX
This is probably pretty confusing looking, feel free to ask questions.
Rainer_EMC
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January 16th, 2017 20:00
VNX supports either being a leaf in a an AD based DFS namespace or being a standalone DFS root
dynamox
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January 13th, 2017 18:00
see if anything here is helpful.
http://blog.e2h.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/docu48454_Managing-a-Multiprotocol-Environment-on-VNX-8.1.pdf
cadencep45
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January 16th, 2017 04:00
I suspect ( could be wrong ).
That your VNX shares are leaf nodes to a DFS server and that the DFS server is masking the VNX paths. You should be able to check this by checking the CIFS export on the Control Station by
server_export server_x -P cifs -list
( I am putting in server_x as you might not have your cifs shares visible through a physical Data Mover rather a Virtual Data Mover )
I suspect the company name is not on the list ?
Brett8187
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January 18th, 2017 08:00
Castleknock, thanks for the response.
server_export VNXSTL_VDM_1_replica1 -P cifs -list (the VDM for the CIF, terrible name, i know)
return for example:
VNXSTL_VDM_1_replica1 :
share "HOME_STL" "/FS01STL/DATA/HOME_STL" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 type=ABE netbios=FS01STL comment="STL User Home Drives"
share "Software" "/FS01STL/DATA/Software" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 type=OCNone netbios=FS01STL comment="Corizonhealth Software Repository. DO NOT REPLICATE"
FS01STL is the CIF server on the VNX
The physical VDM returns no entires.
server_export server_2 -P cifs -list
server_2 : no entries
Brett8187
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January 18th, 2017 11:00
wow. nevermind. I figured it out. Pointers on a few DCs went to the CIF