hello,
I'm having a problem I hope will be easy for someone to explain to me
how to fix. I need to migrate from an old server to a new Cisco Smart
Storage NAS, which runs some flavor of linux and is Active Directory
aware. Using something like Robocopy from the AD server, or rsync or tar
from the file server does not preserve user/group identities or
directory date stamps (maybe rsync tar preserves the directory date
stamps but robocopy doesn't). The owner defaults to the NAS admin and
admin group.
There also seems to be a problem with the windows security permissions
on the directories/files - under Windows Explorer the permissions are
listed as "special" and the admins can't change them.
I set up a file server years ago on CentOs using Samba to serve files to
Windows clients. Since then we integrated Active Directory and I had a
windows whiz fix up my Samba config to use AD authentication. So the
server doesn't really have linux users/groups anymore per se. To add a
new user I add them via the AD server then map them in the smb.conf file
- create manually a home directory for them and chown it to their
username. (not sure how that works since there is no linux user by those
usernames). Here is an example:
[jimd]
path = /home/CN/jimd
valid users = CN+jimd
writeable = Yes
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
browseable = no
So the AD user is CN+jimd. One the file server though, the username that
shows up on any file created by CN+jimd is actually owned by jimd (no
CN+). On the NAS, any file I create with that user is owned by CN+jimd.
Not sure if that is part of my problem or not.
Groups are similar.
[Engineering]
writeable = Yes
path = /home/data/engineering
force group = CN+sengineer
; guest ok = Yes
browseable = Yes
create mask = 0770
directory mask = 0770
valid users = @CN+sengineer
So the thought was to somehow map files/shares on the AD server and move
them over in that environment, but having troubles mentioned above -
preserving directory time stamps and owner IDs. Seems like I'm missing
something really simple. The NAS does have samba and automatically
writes a smb.conf file, but I don't believe there is a way to manually
edit it other than GUI.
Let me know if you need more info to help.. appreciate the read!
cheers, JD
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Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604
http://www.nomealaska.org
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