Support For Windows/Smb Networking - Overland Storage SnapServer Administrator's Manual

SnapServer / GuardianOS 7.6 Administrator's Guide
To use Active Directory domain mode, you cannot configure Date/Time to synchronize with an
NTP server. NTP is not supported in Active Directory.

Support for Windows/SMB Networking

The default settings make the SnapServer available to SMB clients in the workgroup named
Workgroup. Opportunistic locking is enabled, as is participation in master browser elections.
Consider the following when configuring access for your Windows networking clients.
Support for Microsoft Name Resolution Servers
The SnapServer supports NetBIOS, WINS, and DNS name resolution services. However,
when you use a domain name server with a Windows Active Directory (ADS) server, make
sure the forward and reverse name lookup are correctly set up. ADS can use a Unix BIND
server for DNS as well.
ShareName$ Support
GuardianOS supports appending the dollar-sign character ($) to the name of a share in order
to hide the share from SMB clients accessing the SnapServer.
NOTE: As with Windows servers, shares ending in '$' are not truly hidden, but rather are filtered out
To completely hide shares from visibility from any protocols, the Security > Shares page gives
you access to a separate and distinct hidden share option that hides a share from SMB, AFP,
HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP clients. However, shares are not hidden from NFS clients, which
cannot connect to shares that aren't visible. To hide shares from NFS clients, consider
disabling NFS access on hidden shares.
• For new shares, select Create Share and click Advanced Share Properties to access the
Hide this share option.
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by the Windows client. As a result, some clients and protocols can still see these shares.
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