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7 Using SMB
The SMB server implementation allows you to create file shares for data stored on the cluster. The
SMB server provides a true Windows experience for Windows clients. A user accessing a file
share on a StoreAll system will see the same behavior as on a Windows server.
IMPORTANT:
SMB and StoreAll Windows clients cannot be used together because of incompatible
AD user to UID mapping. You can use either SMB or StoreAll Windows clients, but not both at the
same time.
IMPORTANT:
Before configuring SMB, select an authentication method. See
authentication for SMB, FTP, and HTTP” (page 64)
for more information.
Configuring nodes for SMB
To enable nodes to provide SMB services, you will need to configure the resolv.conf file. On
each node, the /etc/resolv.conf file must include a DNS server that can resolve SRV records
for your domain. For example:
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search mycompany.com
nameserver 192.168.100.132
To verify that a file serving node can resolve SRV records for your AD domain, run the Linux dig
command. (In the following example, the Active Directory domain name is mydomain.com.)
% dig SRV _ldap._tcp.mydomain.com
In the output, verify that the ANSWER SECTION contains a line with the name of a domain controller
in the Active Directory domain. Following is some sample output:
; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> SRV _ldap._tcp.mydomain.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56968
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_ldap._tcp.mydomain.com. IN SRV
;; ANSWER SECTION:
_ldap._tcp.mydomain.com. 600 IN SRV 0 100 389 adctrlr.mydomain.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
adctrlr.mydomain.com. 3600 IN A 192.168.11.11
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.100.132 #53(192.168.100.132)
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 16 09:56:02 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 113
For more information, see the Linux resolv.conf(5) man page.
Starting or stopping the SMB service and viewing SMB statistics
IMPORTANT:
You will need to start the SMB service initially on the file serving nodes.
Subsequently, the service is started automatically when a node is rebooted.
NOTE:
CIFS in the GUI has not been rebranded to SMB yet. CIFS is just a different name for
SMB.
Use the SMB panel on the GUI to start, stop, or restart the SMB service on a particular server, or
to view SMB activity statistics for the server. Select Servers from the Navigator and then select the
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