Solved: Re: what is real usage of sharing the same volume to Unix and Window clients?

netappmagic · ‎2013-12-04

I know the same volume/data could be shared by both Unix and Window platforms, but can anybody please give me a few real examples on why I need to do that?

in this case, I need to setup the security of shares to mixed.

Thanks for your inputs in advance!

dburkland · ‎2013-12-04

At my organization we have provisioned many cross platform file shares for various use cases. We have one group which copies files from their PCs out to a share and then they process the files from several RHEL servers. We typically set the security style to NTFS due to its granularity however it depends on the users. I would advise against using a mixed security style as it would cause more problems than it solves. Is there any reason why you could not use a UNIX or NTFS security style on a cross platform file share?

Dan

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dburkland · ‎2013-12-04

At my organization we have provisioned many cross platform file shares for various use cases. We have one group which copies files from their PCs out to a share and then they process the files from several RHEL servers. We typically set the security style to NTFS due to its granularity however it depends on the users. I would advise against using a mixed security style as it would cause more problems than it solves. Is there any reason why you could not use a UNIX or NTFS security style on a cross platform file share?

Dan

HARI_KRISHNA981 · ‎2013-12-05

Hi netappmagic,

Have a look at this doc, this may help you in understanding the real use of mixed security style

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/lisa97/failsafe/lisa-nt98/full_papers/allison/allison_html/allison.html

and this one

http://hippodata.blogspot.in/2013/05/multiprotocol-on-netapp-storage-system.html

Cheers,

Hari