Post by achard on Feb 26, 2007 10:53:42 GMT 7
Hi All,
I am using an N5200 storage device with 5 X 750Gb Seagate hdds in it. I emailed thecus before buying it, and they confirmed it would work.
There has been no end to the trouble we have had since it was installed.
Configuration is as follows:
5 X 750Gb HDDs in RAID 5 with 1 hot spare.
Attached to a windows 2003 domain via ADS.
Most folders need security via domain user names, and this appears to be a particular problem.
Its being used in a school, and so the number of users is not small (approx 900 users total, with about 20 groups used to assign permissions). The most common problems are that it gives either bad username or password message, or disk full message (and its about 12% full).
This message about bad usernames or passwords comes up on public shares as well, which also seem to require you to log in when they do work before you can access them (although it doesn't check the username and password in these circumstamces - Wrong ones do work!)
It also doesn't seem to cope too well with serving norton ghost images to network ghost clients, frequently they get to between 5% and 30% before they fail.
I'm running out of ideas. It is running the 1.0.0.7 firmware.
My last resort is going to be to setup a linux server as a samba proxy.
Would this work? I'm thinking setup a linux box as a samba server... unsecure all shares on the n5200, put it on a separate network with only the linux box, and then connect the school network to a different interface on the linux box, running a samba server that serves out the mapped smb shares from the n5200.
Anyway, and ideas on other ways around this would be appreciated. If its not the permissions that are causing the grief, then that won't fix anything anyway.
Regards,
Alex Chard
I am using an N5200 storage device with 5 X 750Gb Seagate hdds in it. I emailed thecus before buying it, and they confirmed it would work.
There has been no end to the trouble we have had since it was installed.
Configuration is as follows:
5 X 750Gb HDDs in RAID 5 with 1 hot spare.
Attached to a windows 2003 domain via ADS.
Most folders need security via domain user names, and this appears to be a particular problem.
Its being used in a school, and so the number of users is not small (approx 900 users total, with about 20 groups used to assign permissions). The most common problems are that it gives either bad username or password message, or disk full message (and its about 12% full).
This message about bad usernames or passwords comes up on public shares as well, which also seem to require you to log in when they do work before you can access them (although it doesn't check the username and password in these circumstamces - Wrong ones do work!)
It also doesn't seem to cope too well with serving norton ghost images to network ghost clients, frequently they get to between 5% and 30% before they fail.
I'm running out of ideas. It is running the 1.0.0.7 firmware.
My last resort is going to be to setup a linux server as a samba proxy.
Would this work? I'm thinking setup a linux box as a samba server... unsecure all shares on the n5200, put it on a separate network with only the linux box, and then connect the school network to a different interface on the linux box, running a samba server that serves out the mapped smb shares from the n5200.
Anyway, and ideas on other ways around this would be appreciated. If its not the permissions that are causing the grief, then that won't fix anything anyway.
Regards,
Alex Chard