[gpfsug-discuss] Active direcotry based ACLs for Samba and Windows GPFS clients

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 08/03/2024 13:02, Peter Hruška wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I would like to ask if there is any possible way to unify access IDs for 
> Samba share and GPFS client on Windows.
> 
> The model situation looks like this - we have a GPFS cluster with one 
> filesystem. On the filesystem we have a Samba shared directory. MMauth 
> is configured to Active directory for file access and works.
> The Windows machine is also part of the GPFS cluster and therefore it is 
> able to mount the filesystem "directly" by mmmount. However the 
> user/group IDs that are used by this access method are not consistent 
> with the IDs used by Samba and access to the same data is not working well.
> Is there is any solution to this situation? I tried to study the 
> documentation but I didn't find a clear information whether this is or 
> isn't possible but I also didn't find a way to unify the access.
> 

The obvious question is to ask if your Active Directory has it's RFC 
23037bis fields populated?


JAB.

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