Enable plaintext authentication on Mac OS: 1. Make sure that you are not currently connected to any Samba or Windows (SMB/CIFS) servers and that you do not have any Samba or Windows-related error messages open. 2. Open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/). 3. At the prompt, type: sudo pico...

First your MAC has to be joined to a Windows domain. A lot of step-by-step tutorials can be found on internet, just like this one: www.themiddleground.net/featured/how-to-connect-a-mac-osx-10-6-to-a-windows-domain/ Note it may differ depending on your system version. Make sure...

If CSV list of UIDs/GIDs downloaded from DSS V6 Web Gui is empty, please make sure you have updated your system to newest version and apply  Small Update with the following number for V6: 1234 After reboot list should be downloadable allowing you to modify users UIDs/GIDs.

Can't access my shares when NFS Failover is on. There are 3 things that you need to be aware of when using NFS Failover. First of all NFS Failover works only with NFS protocol and not with Samba. If you start the NFS Failover, the Samba access to all of your shares will be disabled. You...

Page Extent Size (PE) represents size of the smallest building block of Logical Volume. In DSS V6 it is set by default to 32MB. That means that every created LV will be 32 x N MB large. Block size of NAS volume are chosen automatically depending on size of LV to...

NDMP  (Network Data Management Protocol), is a protocol, meant to transport data between NAS devices. This removes the need for transporting the data through the backup server itself, thus enhancing speed and removing load from the backup server. The NDMP functionality in the Open-E DSS...

Due to filesystem repair constraints, we recommend the following: 1GB of memory for each 1TB of storage, plus 100MB for each 1 million inodes (i.e. files and folders). If it is not possible to employ the recommended amount of memory, please create a larger number of smaller logical volumes...

Symptom: Trying to copy roughly 400GB of data (many small files) from a windows file server to the DSS (NAS share) and he keeps getting the following errors: [2008/08/20 12:49:41, 0] registry/reg_db.c:regdb_open(288) regdb_open: Failed to open /usr/local/samba/var/locks/registry.tdb! (Too many...

The Force user and group capability forces each authenticated user to function as the imposed user/group. This function does not apply directly to file permissions, but it is related because a different user is authenticated and a different user accesses the files.  For example, on a share,...