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Re: Integrating Windows into Xsan



Thomas,

Maybe one of those cute golden triangles of authentication...

mac -> OD  and OD ->AD

And yes, apple training is good, and yes, maybe I should hire a 
contractor to do this for me. I met a bunch of smart kids at Macworld. 

:)

-x

On Tue, Feb 
07, 2006 at 10:43:18AM -0800, Thomas Weyer wrote:
> Xsan does NOT support ACLs.
> 
> In terms of Dir Integration you have a number of options.  Get all 
> servers to Auth to a single dir server (OD/Mac or AD/Win) or use a 
> hybrid solution with a Master Dir Server and then Local Dir server 
> for the other platform (again this can be standard LDAP (aka OD) or 
> AD/Windows).
> 
> This is covers a bit in the Mac OS X Server Doc as well as thru 
> training offered by Apple, or installation/Professional services if 
> you just want to contract it out to someone and not have to deal with 
> it yourself.
> 
> --Tom
> 
> 
> 
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> At 10:16 AM -0800 2/7/06, techtalk wrote:
> >Jason,
> >
> >Yes, it seems somewhat necessary that I will have to get the Macs to 
> >authenticate against AD to share the privileges scheme and 
> >authority, the same as the win users understand.
> >
> >But I hope that's all that needs to be done. I'm not looking forward 
> >to "extending schemas" or getting some kind of extra Unix LDAP 
> >functionality to work on Windows, besides what AD supports out of 
> >the box.
> >
> >If Xsan does not support Mac OS X ACLs, then I don't see if 
> >supporting Windows ACLs, right?
> >
> >:)
> >
> >Mat X
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> >On 7-Feb-06, at 9:17 AM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>On Feb 7, 2006, at 8:20 AM, mat x mauser wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Everyone.
> >>>
> >>>I am looking at my first Windows (2003 server) integration into 
> >>>Xsan using StorNext.  This specific Xsan setup is currently 
> >>>running Panther 10.3.9 (client an server) and Xsan 1.1.  Besides 
> >>>RTFM (the Xsan Admin 1.1 manual) and checking which version of 
> >>>StorNext is compatible with Xsan, I am curious how the whole users 
> >>>and privileges thing will play out.  The windows users are using 
> >>>AD accounts, but the Mac ppl are using local accounts (bad, i 
> >>>know!). I might switch the Mac users to OD or AD accounts and see 
> >>>what happens (fun!).  Any gotchas? Or real world advice from 
> >>>anyone doing this now?
> >>
> >>1- The Mac and Windows systems will need to be bound to a common 
> >>directory system.
> >>
> >>2- You will need to verify with ADIC StorNext's Windows<->Unix 
> >>integration support for your environment.
> >>
> >>-- thorpej
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References: 
 >Integrating Windows into Xsan (From: mat x mauser <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Integrating Windows into Xsan (From: Jason Thorpe <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Integrating Windows into Xsan (From: techtalk <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Integrating Windows into Xsan (From: Thomas Weyer <email@hidden>)



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