I've recently purchased an Adaptec SNAP server to serve as a central file
server for a 2500 machine, 7000 user network. My goal is for this server
to serve as a backend file store to a number of other servers that the
client machines will communicate with. In particular, I would like to have
my current file server (which runs samba 3.0.10 in kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6)
mount a share on the snap server and reshare it to the clients with:
mount -t cifs //gaea/data /mnt/smbfs -o
user-admin,password='mypassword',ip=10.1.1.4,domain=WHSD,setuids,rw,netbiosname=weyland,noperm,soft
where gaea is the name of the snap server and weyland is the name of the
client I am testing this with. If I run this command against my current
samba server everything works as expected (i.e. I can login to 'weyland'
with a user that doesn't exist on the server and create files whose owner
is set correctly). If I run this command against the snap server I am able
to create files but the owner is set to the user specified on the mount
command.
I tried to escalate this problem through Adaptec tech support to no avail.
I theorized that adaptec may have patched samba in a strange way to
somehow disable 'unix extensions'. I discovered that the Adaptec snap
server is just a stripped down Redhat 8 box (through /lib/libc.so.6), so I
compiled samba 3.0.20b on another Redhat 8 box and moved the binary (and
some shared objects) to the snap server. I functions in the same way (I
can create, move, etc. files but their owner is set incorrectly).
My understanding is that any version of samba >= 3.0 supports the unix
extensions from the server standpoint regardless of what kernel, etc. the
server is using, but the experiences I've detailed above seem to prove this
wrong. I'd really like to get this working so I'd appreciate any insights.
Thanks.
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Ed Stoner
Network Administrator
Woodland Hills School District
2430 Greensburg Pike, Pittsburgh PA
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