Transferring Share Ownership; Discovering Controllers And Configuring A Nas Service - Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Installation And Setup

EqualLogic FS7500 Installation and Setup
For example, if your environment has chiefly Microsoft clients, define the shares as NTFS. Active Directory
permissions will be applied by user name regardless of whether the client is actually Linux or Microsoft.
Conversely, the permissions used in a predominantly Linux/POSIX environment will be POSIX-based by either
an LDAP or NIS server.

Transferring Share Ownership

When you create a CIFS share, it is initially owned by the CIFS administrator. This built-in account has a
randomly-generated password for security purposes. From the Group Manager GUI where you logged in as the
default Group Manager administrator (the (
password before attempting to access the CIFS share from a client system.
To change the CIFS administrator password, see "Setting the CIFS Password" in the Group Administration
guide.
From a Windows client system, log in to the CIFS share using the new CIFS administrator password. assign or
share read-write permissions to individual users or groups.
You can also perform this operation using the Domain Administrator account, if the NAS Service is part of an
Active Directory domain. Only the CIFS administrator or the domain administrator can set the permissions for
other local users and groups, or domain users and groups.

Discovering Controllers and Configuring a NAS Service

To discover controllers and configure a NAS service, follow these steps:
1. In the Group Manager GUI, click
2. In the Discover Devices dialog box
want to include in the NAS service. Make sure that
You must add controllers to a NAS service in pairs. After being configured into a NAS service, a controller
appears in Group Manager as a NAS node.
If all the expected devices do not appear in the Discover Devices dialog box, click
expected devices still do not appear, make sure each FS7500 Controller is correctly connected to the
networks.
3. Click
Configure NAS service
wizard.
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account), you must change the CIFS administrator's
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in the Activities panel.
Discover devices
(Figure 42), select the service tag for each FS7500 Controller that you
appears in the
NAS
in the Discover Devices dialog box to start the Configure NAS Service
5 NAS Service Configuration
column for the device.
Product
Rediscover
. If the