General :: Media Storage Options (moved To Server Forum)
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Steps:-
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PATH:-
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Some additional info;
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I'd like this to be completely transparent to everyday use -- all programs designed to interact from a few other servers / computers will still work without modification, and, more importantly, all file permissions can remain the same. As far as I've seen the SMB mounting doesn't full preserve the *nix file permissions. I'm hoping the NFS mount will, but please tell me if I'm wrong. SMB is so much more straight-forward and already working. I should also note speed is a giant plus for NFS.
The Players:
Windows Server 2003 - The Active Directory server
Windows Storage Server 2008 - The new file server
OpenSUSE 10.3 - The workhorse server
I have no control over the operating system choice. I have no control over the AD server. I have limited, intermittent access to the person who does have full control of the AD server. I have full control over the file server and the workhorse server.
What I've done: The Storage Server is running Services for Network File System (NFS). It has a 6.5ish TB RAID partition configured for NFS and Samba/CIFS sharing which is used for the data storage. The Samba/CIFS share is mountable and accessible, but I haven't found a way to maintain proper user permissions on the files. When I connect the owner and group for every file is root:root, which led me to NFS in hopes this would fix the problem.
The AD server admin has installed Services for Unix, and we imported the OpenSUSE passwd and group file. Either this didn't work, or it take a bit more configuration. Tomorrow morning we're going to take a deeper look into the SFU configuration with the AD.
Right now I can mount the NFS share on the OpenSUSE under the root account:
Command results truncated to what I think is relevant info. Ask if you need more.
Code:
My Problems:
I'm hoping the "Permission denied" error is solely because the UID and GID mappings are incorrect. I have, however, tried to create an NFS share with full permissions to "Everyone" and anonymous access, and I get the same results.
Also I've run into another roadblock. Why do non-root accounts fail to execute the mount /mnt/datadir command?
Code:
AFAIK 1048 is not a restricted port, so regular users should have access to bind to the port. I also have a Gentoo machine where regular users are allowed to execute the command. The 'mount' command shows that the NFS share was mounted with the username executing the command too.
Server NFS Config:
Code:
The following are the settings on localhost
The above was written yesterday and not posted in hopes I could solve the problem this morning. I failed.
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bellow the detail of my drives
/dev/mapper/mpath0p6 1.6G 287M 1.2G 20% /
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tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/mpath0p8 356G 303G 36G 90% /filesrv
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