Restoring User Mappings; Creating A Sample Nfs File Share - HP ProLiant 300 Series Administration Manual

Restoring user mappings

User mappings can be restored using the following procedures.
1. Click the Map Maintenance tab on the User Name Mapping screen.
2. Type the path and name of the file in the File path and name field, or click Browse to locate the file.
3. After locating the file, click Restore.

Creating a sample NFS file share

HP recommends performing the following tests to verify that the setup of the shares, user mappings, and
permissions grant the desired access to the NFS shares.
1. Create an NFS share. NFS Shares are All Machines, read-only by default.
See "NFS File Shares" earlier in this chapter for information on creating shares.
2. Create NFS client groups if desired. See "NFS Client Groups" earlier in this chapter.
3. Verify that the NFS share exists.
Use Remote Desktop to log into the storage server and access the command line interface:
nfsshare <sharename> (sharename represents the name of the share)
4. Map a user. When creating Active Directory/Domain mappings, ensure that the NFS Authentication
software is installed on the domain controllers that have user name mappings. See "Installing
NFS Authentication Software on the Domain Controllers and Active Directory Domain Controllers"
section. Also, see "User and Group Mappings" in this chapter for instructions on setting up user
name mappings. When planning to allow only anonymous access to an NFS share, setting up
user name mappings is not necessary.
5. Verify the NTFS permissions are correct on the NFS share. If the NFS share was assigned All
Machines read write, the NTFS ACLs on the NFS share must allow read/write permissions for the
user or group. Example: f:\share1 is the name of the NFS share and share1 has All Machines
read write permissions. Verify that the NTFS permissions on f:\share1 are List Folder/Read Data,
Create File/Write Data, Create Folders/Append Data, Write Attributes, and Delete Subfolders and
Files. This can be verified by opening up Windows Explorer on the storage server desktop and
right-clicking f:\share1, and then clicking Properties. Next, click the Security tab. Then click
Advanced. Highlight the user or group that permissions are being assigned to, and then click Edit.
There are checkboxes next to the NTFS permissions that are assigned. Make sure mapped users and
groups correlate to the users or groups that have the NTFS permissions assigned. See the section
"Understanding NTFS and UNIX Permissions" in this chapter for more information.
6. Verify that the mappings exist.
Use Remote Desktop to log in to the storage server and access the command line interface:
mapadmin list -all
7. On the Linux/UNIX system, use the mapped user to create a file.
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As the root user, mount the share:
mount -t nfs <nfs server IP address:/nfs share> /mount point
Log in as a mapped user.
Change directories to the mount-point directory.
Create the file as the mapped user (example: file1).
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