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Readynas 314 support for UNIX / Share level security.
Hi all,
We currently have an old 1000s that is is starting to have disk failures (as expected after such a long time). Functionally the unit works well for what we need although it is very slow.
We just use it as a file server for our UNIX/Linux/Windows servers, so the most important thing is that it works well at both a UNIX level (nfs) and Windows. We just use Share level security, we don't care about access rights to the unit.
Looking to replace it with a 314 and checking whether there are any gotchas in regard to using with UNIX. I wouldn't expect so, but my main concern is that the 314 still has Share level security so I don't need to go setting up user accounts for every machine that connects to it.
Is that still the case?
Regards,
Dave.
We currently have an old 1000s that is is starting to have disk failures (as expected after such a long time). Functionally the unit works well for what we need although it is very slow.
We just use it as a file server for our UNIX/Linux/Windows servers, so the most important thing is that it works well at both a UNIX level (nfs) and Windows. We just use Share level security, we don't care about access rights to the unit.
Looking to replace it with a 314 and checking whether there are any gotchas in regard to using with UNIX. I wouldn't expect so, but my main concern is that the 314 still has Share level security so I don't need to go setting up user accounts for every machine that connects to it.
Is that still the case?
Regards,
Dave.
5 Replies
- Share security mode is EOL (End of Life). It wasn't even available on all the Sparc models.
Do you have a Windows Domain? If so, note that you can connect a 314 to your AD. - Thanks for the quick reply.
We do use a Windows Domain but to be honest I'm not that great with the Windows security front so I'm not sure what impact adding it to the domain would have. Does this exclude machines that aren't part of the domain from using the shared directories, I'm guessing it would?
We also want to be able to create/view/share files between Windows and UNIX/Linux.
On our UNIX machines we typically just use root user and rarely have specific users defined (I work in a database support team for a database company so these are not true production systems). So on our UNIX/Linux machines we usually just have an NFS mount to the NAS share and away we go.
Will we be able to share files between Windows / UNIX / Linux if the NAS is part of the Windows domain?
Sorry if they sound like dumb questions, I've never played with Domains / AD before.
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Dave. - Ah. I guess you don't want to use domain mode then.
Creating users and groups (if needed) would be the way to go. More than one user could login using the same credentials if you want, I think. - Is it possible to both simultaneously have the NAS:
a) Connect it to the domain.
b) Manually define some 'other' users for PCs that aren't part of the domain.
My thought here is if it could allow domain users for the support staff's permanent laptops, plus have a set of users defined that can be used for ad-hoc machines that aren't part of the domain.
Cheers,
Dave. - I don't know about that. Does the Software Manual have anything to say about this?
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