Basic scenarios, Filename character translation – Dell PowerVault 725N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) User Manual
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Log in to the NAS Manager.
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From the NAS Manager, click Shares.
3.
Click Sharing Protocols.
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Click NFS Protocol, and then click Properties.
5.
Click User and Group Mappings.
6.
Use the User and Group Mappings window to define your user and group maps.
Configuration
To configure the type of server to be used to access UNIX user and group names, perform the following steps:
1.
On the User and Group Mappings window, click General.
2.
Click Use NIS server, or click Use password and group files to select the server type.
3.
Depending on whether you use an NIS server or password and group files, perform one of the following steps:
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For password and group files, specify the location and filename of the UNIX password file and UNIX group file.
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For NIS server, type the NIS domain and, optionally, the name of the NIS server.
4.
Click OK to apply the configuration.
Defining Maps
To define simple maps in SFU, perform the following steps:
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In the User and Group Mappings window menu, click Simple Mappings.
2.
Click Enable Simple Mapping.
3.
Specify the Windows Domain.
4.
Click OK to create the maps.
If you are defining explicit maps, you create user and group maps individually. To create explicit maps, perform the following steps:
1.
On the User and Group Mappings window menu, click Explicit User Mapping to create user maps, or click Explicit Group Mapping to create group
maps.
2.
Specify the Windows Domain. If the server is configured as PCNFS, go to step 4.
3.
Click List UNIX Users or List UNIX Groups.
This action refreshes your UNIX users or groups selection.
4.
Create map entries by selecting a Windows user or group and a UNIX user (UID) or group (GID) from the list and clicking Add.
5.
Click OK to create the maps.
Basic Scenarios
For UNIX and Windows NT User Name Mapping, an NIS Server must already exist in the UNIX environment, or UNIX user and group files must exist on the
PowerVault NAS system. User Name Mapping associates UNIX users and groups to Windows NT users and groups. You can use two types of maps, simple and
explicit. Simple maps define a one-to-one relationship between the same user names and groups. Explicit maps define a relationship between dissimilar user
names and groups.
Workgroup
In the workgroup scenario, you configure User Name Mapping locally on the NAS system. All maps are contained on this system.
Domain
In the domain scenario, you configure NFS Authentication on all domain controllers. The NT Authentication Service installation program must be installed on the
domain controller and available in the DomainUtils share on the NAS system.
To install the NT Authentication Service on a domain controller, perform the following steps:
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Log in to the domain controller as an administrator.
2.
Map the NAS system's DomainUtils share.
3.
Run sfucustom.msi, which is located in the Services for Unix directory.
Filename Character Translation
Although Windows and UNIX file systems do not allow certain characters in filenames, the characters that are prohibited by each operating system are not the
same. For example, a valid Windows filename can not contain a colon (:), but a UNIX filename can. If a UNIX user attempts to create a file in an NFS share and
that file contains an illegal character in its name, the attempt will fail.
NOTE:
The UNIX password file and group file formats must conform to the UNIX standard for these files.