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Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Troubleshooting Guide • December 2004

Does StorEdge support DFS?

DFS (distributed file system) is a hierarchical file system that allows files to be stored
across multiple servers and managed as a single group.

StorEdge can serve as a DFS target. This means that DFS referrals can redirect clients
to StorEdge, but StorEdge does not provide referrals and cannot be configured as a
root replica.

What support is there for Windows Server Manager?

StorEdge currently supports the following operations in Server Manager:

View a list of shared resources

Add a new share

Delete a share

View a list of services running on StorEdge

View a list of connected users

Note –

Dialogs that offer the supported operations may also offer other operations

but support is limited to the options listed above.

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NIS/NIS+ Issues

How do I set up NIS or NIS+?

NIS and NIS+ provide information to a simple networked database with information
about users and hosts. NIS works by copying files from the NIS server to the
StorEdge, NIS+ works by performing remote lookups to these files stored on a NIS+
server, and adds several other features.

1. To access this functionality, access the StorEdge via Telnet or serial console.

2. Press [Enter] at the [menu] prompt and enter the administrator password.

3. Select option “I”, “NIS & NIS+”. A list of options for both NIS and NIS+ is

displayed, as follows:

Network Information Services (NIS)

Enable—Enables or disable NIS.

NIS Domain—Defines the NIS domain.

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