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Permissions tab is missing on Microsoft Windows share connected to Netapp filer

Brad Hearn — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:11:34 +0000

If the permissions tab is missing on a Nettap filer share when connecting through Microsoft Windows management this probably due to the fact that the share was created using the filer default security Unix instead of NTFS. To confirm and fix this do the following…

Login to your filer using ssh or web browser at https:\\filername
navigate to Volumes-Qtrees-Manage

Select the effected Volume and

Change the drop down from Unix to NTFS
Apply and you are done.

Hope this helps

Manage multiple DHCP scopes with netsh script

Brad Hearn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:40:38 +0000

Use a script to change the DNS lookups and Wins lookups options in DHCP on muliple scripts. Using the netsh command this can be done eaisly.

Tools needed…

Some knowledge of the netsh command
A text file with the ip address’s of the scopes to be modified
IP address’s of the DHCP servers to change
And a script of course.

The easiest way to obtain the ip address’s of the scopes to modify is to log onto the DHCP server itself and open your support tools command prompt

Step 1.

Go to netsh command line to understand more on this command. And make sure you create a test subnet to run my scripts agains to make sure this is right for you.

Step 2.

C:\Program Files\Support Tools>netsh dhcp server 172.x.x.x show scope > c:\scope.txt

At the command prompt enter the section above in red (insert the ip address of the DHCP server in place of 172.x.x.x. This will create a text file with the sope info on your c drive.

You will now want to open scope.txt and clean it up. You only want the IP address’s of the scopes to be changed. the text file should be in the following format

Step 3

for /f “tokens=1″ %%a in (c:\scope.txt) DO netsh dhcp server 172.x.x.x scope %%a set optionvalue 006 IPADDRESS DNS_Address_1 DNS_Address_2 DNS_Adress_3

172.x.x.x = Your DHCP server IP address

DNS_Address_#= DNS server IP address’s

Copy the above red text into a text file and save it as scope_edit.bat to the same folder as scope.txt. Run the bat file. This will run through each IP address changing the dns entires. does not append the scope option for DNS it overwrites it. However it will not effect any other options that are currently set.

You can now use the same script to change your wins optin by changing optioncalue 006 to optionvalue 044

Good luck

The user authentication method required by this server can’t be found

Brad Hearn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:20:00 +0000

We have apple clients? I had no idea. But apparently when we pulled the Novell file servers out we had some apple file shares that were now broken.

When the client attempts to connect to the Microsoft windows 2003 server share they see this error “the user authentication method required by this server can’t be found…”

Easy fix. As long as File services for Macintosh is installed under add/remove components and the AppleTalk Protocol is enabled. then this might work for you.

Go into computer management and expand system tools.
Right click on Shared folders and select Configure File Server for Macintosh.
Change Enable authentication to “Apple Clear Text”
OK and Save

Brad Hearn

Enterprise Server Analyst

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