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File Access and Protocols Management Guide
Data ONTAP® 7.1

Preface

 

Chapter 1: Introduction to File Access Management

 

Chapter 2: File Access Using NFS

Exporting and unexporting file system paths

Providing secure NFS access

Enabling and disabling NFS versions

Using NFSv4

File sharing with PC-NFS clients

 

Enabling or disabling the pcnfsd daemon

 

Creating PC-NFS user entries on the storage system

Defining the umask for PC-NFS-created files and directories

Configuring Data ONTAP for WebNFS

 

Chapter 3: File Access Using CIFS

Configuring a storage system for CIFS

 

Configuring CIFS using cifs setup

 

How to specify a storage system's Windows name

 

Reconfiguring CIFS for the storage system

Managing shares

 

Sharing directories

 

Displaying and changing share properties

 

Deleting a share

Managing ACLs

 

How share-level access control lists work

 

Specifying how group IDs work with share-level ACLs

 

Changing and displaying a share-level ACL

 

Changing and displaying file-level ACLs

Managing home directories

 

Understanding home directories on the storage system

 

How Data ONTAP matches a directory with a user

 

Setting up user home directories

 

Specifying home directory paths

 

Specifying the naming style of home directories

 

Creating directories in a home directory path

 

Accessing home directories

 

Specifying support for wide symbolic links in home directories

 

How to stop offering home directories

Managing local users and groups

 

Understanding local user accounts

 

Creating local groups on the storage system from a Windows system

Applying Group Policy Objects

 

Enabling GPO support in your environment

 

Managing GPOs on the storage system

 

Enabling NTFS security settings with GPOs

Monitoring CIFS activity

 

Displaying CIFS session information

 

Timing out idle sessions

 

Tracking Statistics

 

CIFS resource limitations

Auditing CIFS events

 

Understanding CIFS auditing

 

Configuring Data ONTAP for CIFS auditing

 

Saving and clearing audit events

 

Understanding event detail displays

Improving client performance with oplocks

 

Understanding oplocks

 

Managing oplocks

Managing authentication and network services

 

Understanding authentication issues

 

Selecting domain controllers and LDAP servers

 

SMB Signing Support

 

Using null sessions to access storage in non-Kerberos environments

 

Creating NetBIOS aliases for the storage system

 

Disabling NetBIOS over TCP

Managing CIFS services

 

Disabling CIFS service

 

Disconnecting selected clients

 

Disabling CIFS for the entire storage system

 

Specifying which users receive CIFS shutdown messages

 

Restarting CIFS service

 

Sending a message to all users on a storage system

 

Displaying and changing the description of the storage system

 

How to change a storage system's computer account password

File management through Windows administrative tools

 

Chapter 4: File Access Using FTP

Understanding FTP service on the storage system

Setting up FTP service on your storage system

 

Enabling the FTP service on your storage system

 

Changing the FTP file size

 

FTP file locking

 

Configuring an authentication style

 

Configuring anonymous FTP access

Denying access to the FTP service

Viewing FTP log files and connection statistics

Number of log files per FTP session

Managing FTP connections

 

Chapter 5: File Access Using HTTP

Starting the HTTP service

Testing the HTTP service

Specifying the storage system response to HTTP requests

 

Adding the map rule

 

Adding the redirect rule

 

Adding the pass rule

 

Adding the fail rule

Configuring MIME Content-Type values

Maintaining HTTP service security

 

Using HTTP options to restrict access

 

Using an HTTP virtual firewall

 

Protecting Web pages

 

Editing the /etc/httpd.access file

 

Creating and editing httpd.passwd and httpd.group files

Using virtual hosting

Displaying HTTP statistics

Viewing HTTP connection information

 

Chapter 6: File Access Using WebDAV

Understanding the WebDAV protocol

 

Chapter 7: File Sharing Between NFS and CIFS

Understanding NFS and CIFS file naming

Understanding file locking between protocols

Understanding read-only bits

Managing UNIX credentials for CIFS clients

 

How CIFS users obtain UNIX credentials

 

How Data ONTAP maps user names

 

How to specify entries for the /etc/usermap.cfg file

 

How Data ONTAP interprets domain names in /etc/usermap.cfg

 

Examples of usermap.cfg entries

 

Guidelines and recommendations for mapping user names

 

Mapping a Windows account to root

 

Mapping UNIX names to UIDs and GIDs

 

Creating or disabling the default UNIX user account

 

Enabling or disabling the Windows guest user account

Improving CIFS performance with caching

 

Understanding the SID-to-name map cache

 

Enabling and disabling the SID-to-name map cache

 

Changing the lifetime of SID-to-name mapping entries

 

Clearing the SID-to-name map cache

Using LDAP services

 

Configuring LDAP services

 

Managing client authentication and authorization

 

Managing LDAP user-mapping services

 

Managing Active Directory LDAP servers

 

Managing LDAP schema

File screening using FPolicy

 

Understanding FPolicy

 

Enabling and disabling file screening

 

Managing file policies

 

Managing file screening servers

 

Managing native file blocking

Controlling CIFS access to symbolic links

 

Understanding how CIFS clients interact with symbolic links

 

About Map entries

 

About Widelink entries

 

About disabling share boundary checking for symbolic links

 

Redirecting absolute symbolic links

 

Preventing access by CIFS clients to cyclic directory structures

Optimizing NFS directory access for CIFS clients

Preventing CIFS clients from creating uppercase file names

Accessing CIFS files from NFS clients

 

Adding mapping entries to the WAFL credential cache

 

Deleting mapping entries from the WAFL credential cache

 

Setting how long mapping entries are valid

 

Monitoring WAFL credential cache statistics

 

Managing mapping inconsistencies

 

Appendix A: CIFS Access Limits By System Memory

 

Appendix B: Event Log and Audit Policy Mapping

 

Glossary

 

Index

 
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