I would appreciate some help with ongoing SMB/Active Directory/Sharing problems I’m having with unRAID in a Win2008svr AD environment. Currently;

 

unRAID v. 5.0-beta6a, Pro license

SMB enabled

Active directory joined

 

Created Share; DBIshare

Share settings left at default, Export; Yes, Security; Public

Also tried,

Share settings left at default, Export; Yes, Security; Private, assigned user name that was set up in unRAID Users with same name and password as Win AD.

 

Mapped drive on XP SP2 client

Asked for password in both Share scenarios above

Got access to share

 

Moved several subdirectories and files into share using Explorer

 

Problem; many files in a subdirectory (but not all) have proper filename.ext but show in Explorer as “File Folder”. Files can’t be opened from Explorer or by navigation/selection from within client app (i.e. Adobe Reader).

 

If I copy one of these problem files to the XP desktop, all is fine and works properly.

 

I’ve struggled with 4.7, 5.0-beta6a, free, Plus and Pro versions, Workgroup and Active Directory setups but can’t get unRAID to play nice on our Windows network. The above is only the latestest problem but some progress here would be a great start.

 

Thanks.

Just curious since nobody else has picked this up yet.

 

Can you show a directory listing of one of those shares from the perspective of an unRAID login?

 

e.g.

log in via telnet or at the console and use this command: (changing "sharename" with one of your shares)

 

ls -l /mnt/user/sharename

I've done as you suggested and included a screen-cut of the problem as it appears in Explorer as well - this is a small sub-set of files to keep this document manageable.

 

Another thing I noticed when preparing this - as I deleted files to do this, files sometimes changed back from File Folders to usable files (.pdf) again.

file_problem.pdf

Perfect.

 

This might not be as weird to someone who does Samba/AD all day but it sure looks weird to me.

 

You only mentioned the one XPSP2 box. Have you tried to duplicate this on multiple clients and OSs?

 

 

Thanks for the response.

 

I have tried it on one other XPSP2 box where I got the same weirdness with files, but not the request for a login (different user set-up in both Win AD and unRAID). I'm trying this in a work environment where all client machines are XPSP2 at present.

 

This may have me dumping unRAID for this file server and trying something else but I wanted to give it a shot as I really like it in my home environment. In searching out alternatives I was looking at FreeNAS but see problems with it in a Windows 2008 AD environment too - maybe current Linux/Samba based apps in a Win2008 domain is something I should just avoid.

 

I hate the idea of another Win server though...

What kind of interval are we talking about between the icon changes? Anything close to or a multiple of your AD policy updates? You've tried multiple users/profiles?

 

Let's hope someone turns up here. You certainly haven't exhausted the local expertise! My admin skills are not current but my brain is swimming with possible influences between Samba and XPSP2 (maybe any win box). I know updating everyone isn't an option but it would be nice to know if another AD client using anything from SP3 through 7 would behave differently.

Made a mistake on the XP - tests have been run on XPSP3 (both machines).

 

Only 2 users so far and icon changes where noticed right away but stay 'broken' - several days now.

Don't know if you're still checking this but didn't want to leave things hanging.

 

My ignorance of Samba/AD interaction leaves me speculating wildly. Since I don't think unRAID does anything special to those layers this seems like something version/priv/setting related that would have been encountered before. Have you checked any samba support boards? Maybe the lists? (Searchable at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/)

Thanks for the response cyrnel. I was thinking the same as you - something samba/permissions related - and have done a lot of searching with no luck. It’s funny; if I navigate (in Explorer) to the unRIAD share name the above behavior is there, navigate to the same sub-directory by via ‘disk1’ and all appears fine.

 

I’ve come to the conclusion that unRAID (or at least this samba implementation) is not the right fit for my business back-up/file sharing requirements. I’ll look at other products that can supposedly be configured as iSCSI targets - might stand a better chance of properly integrating with Windows 2008 server that way.