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2-58 Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Troubleshooting Guide • December 2004
Connection to SAMBA domain controller fails.
Although support for Samba to act as a primary domain controller has recently been
announced (http://www.samba.org), the current implementation has several
problems, as outlined below. Use of StorEdge with a Samba domain controller is not
recommended at this time.
The Samba PDC implementation is an ASCII-only implementation, i.e. it does not
support Unicode, which impacts foreign language support. All Windows domain
controllers support Unicode.
Samba supports a limited subset of the full domain controller interface. If StorEdge
is used with a Samba domain controller, NOT_SUPPORTED status messages may
appear in the StorEdge log. These status messages originate from the Samba server.
The Samba Net Logon support is limited and problematic. It requires a very specific
sequence of commands and logon problems have been observed using both
Windows and StorEdge that do not appear when using Windows domain
controllers.
The StorEdge currently does not work with SAMBA PDC implementations. By
default, the StorEdge is set not to attempt communication with a SAMBA PDC. If
future releases of SAMBA properly support a Windows-style PDC implementation
then the StorEdge default must be changed to be able to utilize this new
implementation.
This setting can only be modified at the StorEdge CLI. To access the StorEdge CLI,
proceed as follows:
1. Connect to the StorEdge via Telnet, and type “admin” at the [menu] prompt and
enter the administrator password.
2. At the CLI, enter “set smb.samba.pdc yes”.
3. After setting any variables on the StorEdge, i.e. anytime the “set” command is
used, the command "savevars" must be entered at the command line in order for
the settings to persist though future server reboots.
Dial-up CIFS/SMB clients cannot connect to StorEdge.
There are internal and third party solutions that allow CIFS/SMB users to connect to
networks remotely via dial-up. Some users have reported problems connecting from
these dial-up clients.
In the cases we investigated, the problem was caused by the clients using non-
standard ports for CIFS/SMB access. StorEdge only supports NetBIOS/SMB traffic
on the standard ports of 137 through 139. The specific port assignments are as
follows: