I am trialing an EMC NS350 as a candidate NAS to serve CIFS and NFS
clients (XP, OSX, and Linux). I have set up a working Samba 3.x domain
with FDS 1.01 back end and I have an older, borrowed NetApp Filer
(DataOnTap 6.5) working fine as a temporary NFS/CIFS server authing
against LDAP/Samba.
With the EMC, official support is limited to AD and Sun iPlanet LDAP.
The latter limitation of support is turning out to be less theoretical
than I might have hoped. It seems like the EMC wants to behave like an
"official" iPlanet/Sun client.
I am thinking that the solution to this problem could be to config FDS
as laid out in the Solaris Client How-To here:
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:SolarisClient
I have a couple of questions. First, has anybody done this (integrated
an EMC) who has a cut-and-dried report on doing it?
Second, the second schema for NIS domain seems relevant only if the
client is also binding to a NIS domain. I'm not. Or hope not to be :)
Then, is the following step -- adding nisdomain attribute -- also
optional? Seems like it should be.
I am going to try the EMC with the stock set of serviceSearchDescriptor
listed in the How-To's example profile. If anybody else has improved on
that for an EMC, I would be interested in your comments.
There were both pros and cons when comparing NetApp and EMC offerings
this time. It is a bit ironic that NetApp isn't nearly as Linux-y as
EMCs Celerra product, yet LDAP was a breeze to set up on the Filer
itself. In contrast, very little client-side non-iPlanet configuration
is possible on the EMC, so I don't see much alternative to going through
this server-side Solaris-style config change (and hope that it works!)
Thanks,
Jim
