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Fitz · 03-15-2006, 08:44 AM

I've seen a few people with the same problem - this is my way of saying 'screw you' to Adaptec.

I have a snap 4100 that no longer works in my Server 2003 Active Directory - I contacted Adaptec support and was told they actually expect me to PAY for a maintenance contract I will never use to fix their OS problem. I refuse to pay for updates like this and if everyone refuses then we may see a change in attitude from vendors.

There is however a workaround for this problem if you have a Linux (or other UNIX) box running SAMBA3 with Winbind.

Join the *NIX machine to your Active Directory (see WinBind docs)

Turn on NFS sharing in the Snap Server.

Edit the root$ share and add an NFS entry for UID 0 from the IP of your *NIX machine.

Make a directory on the *NIX machine for a NFS mount -
e.g. mkdir /mnt/snap

As root, mount the root$ share of the snap using NFS from the *NIX machine

e.g. # mount -t nfs ip.of.snap.server:/root$ /mnt/snap

Edit your /etc/samba/smb.conf to share the mounted folder to Active Directory users.

This should get you up and running. Hope someone finds this useful.

03-15-2006, 08:44 AM	#1
Fitz Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Irrelevant Posts: 1	Snap OS3x workaround for Server 2003 Active Directory I've seen a few people with the same problem - this is my way of saying 'screw you' to Adaptec. I have a snap 4100 that no longer works in my Server 2003 Active Directory - I contacted Adaptec support and was told they actually expect me to PAY for a maintenance contract I will never use to fix their OS problem. I refuse to pay for updates like this and if everyone refuses then we may see a change in attitude from vendors. There is however a workaround for this problem if you have a Linux (or other UNIX) box running SAMBA3 with Winbind. Join the NIX machine to your Active Directory (see WinBind docs) Turn on NFS sharing in the Snap Server. Edit the root$ share and add an NFS entry for UID 0 from the IP of your NIX machine. Make a directory on the NIX machine for a NFS mount - e.g. mkdir /mnt/snap As root, mount the root$ share of the snap using NFS from the NIX machine e.g. # mount -t nfs ip.of.snap.server:/root$ /mnt/snap Edit your /etc/samba/smb.conf to share the mounted folder to Active Directory users. This should get you up and running. Hope someone finds this useful.