HP ProLiant Storage Server Release Notes (January 2006)

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Issue: NFS administrative shares support
Description Services for NFS does not work with administrative shares in the same fashion as
CIFS.
Workaround By default, a volume drive such as C: is CIFS shared as C$. This is an example of
an administrative share and is hidden to CIFS clients. If an NFS share is created
and named drive$, as in the example, the share is not hidden from NFS clients.
This NFS share acts as a normal NFS share.
Issue: Volume mount points support
Description Attempting to create an NFS share on a disk mounted on a mount point results in
the error:
Cannot write IOCTL to NFS driver…
The storage server supports many network sharing protocols including the NFS
protocol for UNIX
®
and Linux clients. Shares for which the NFS protocol are
enabled must be created on logical disks that are mounted on a drive letter.
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 supports mounting virtual disks onto
mount points or reparse points created on another disk already mounted on a
drive letter.
Mount points enable the administrator to mount many disk devices under a
single drive letter, creating the appearance and behavior of a larger disk drive
with a contiguous namespace. However, the Microsoft Services for NFS Server
does not yet support the functionality of mount points.
Workaround All logical disks to be used for NFS sharing should be mounted on a drive letter,
not on a reparse or mount point. If no NFS shares will be created on a particular
logical disk, that virtual disk may be mounted on a mount point instead of a
drive letter.
Issue: Administrator cannot list and map domain users and groups for NFS mapping unless the
NFS administrator is logged into the domain
Description The administrator cannot list and map domain users and groups for NFS
mapping unless the NFS administrator is logged into the domain.
Workaround The administrator must log into the domain before mapping domain users and
groups. If the administrator is not logged into the domain, the domain user or
group is not on the list of Windows users or groups and cannot be mapped.
Issue: User name mapping Japanese characters
Description User name mapping for the network file system (NFS) server does not support
UNIX user names containing Japanese characters.
Workaround The names of NFS client groups that are used by the NFS server cannot contain
Japanese characters.
Issue: Comments in Password and Group file are not recognized
Description Comments preceded by a “#” in the Password and Group file are not recognized
when specifying the Password and Group file for setting up the User and Group
mappings of the NFS protocol. If a Password or Group file is used with a
comment, the following error is displayed in the WebUI:
The user list cannot be retrieved. Make sure the
password file is not corrupted and then try again.
Workaround HP engineers are working to resolve this issue. In the meantime, do not use
comments preceded by a # symbol in the Password and Group file.