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wvw
10-16-2008, 10:31 PM
Hello

I am new to the forum and am not sure if this is the right place to post this question to, so please forgive me if it's not the right forum.

I have a problem with Codian in that I am trying to get it to upload recordings to a Windows 2003 server.

On the Win2K3 server I installed the NFS requirements to share the drive for Codian. I have set the permissions to allowed-write and also made sure any machine can connect the shared drive on the Win2K3 server.

On Codian, I have mapped a Test Folder to the shared network drive on the Win2K3 server. Everytime I try to click on a recording in the Test folder it doesn't get uploaded to Codian. However when I check the event logs in Codian it tells me permission denied when it tries to open the folder on the Server.

I have tried numerous things. I have made sure the log ins on both Codian and server have the same log in names, passwords etc. No avail. I have enabled/disabled the Anonymous log in tick on the NFS tab on the server, no avail. The 2 machines (Codian and server) are plugged into the same switch and can ping each other fine, however somehow Codian keeps giving permission denied when I try to up a recording.

Does anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? I have read about the NFS in Win2K3 and that you need to choose to either ensure that NFS is mapped to the domain on your domain controller or it needs to use local credentials. I use local credentials as we do not have a domain.

The last thing that is mention worthy is that when I select properties on the Test folder on Server 2K3 it shows a tick on a grey background next to read only. When I untick, apply and OK it and go back to the properties, it is back again. I did a search on google and some people on a forum said that will not affect the permissions, as they have the same thing happening on their server and it works just fine for them.

TIA
wvw

phantom_iv
10-17-2008, 02:25 PM
Have you gone through the user mapping thing by creating 'passwd' and 'group' files to define a unix 'root' user, and mapped this to a Windows user with write permissions? That was the tricky bit for me!

wvw
10-19-2008, 05:10 PM
Hi Codian IV.

Thank you for the reply. I just want to know if I can map the users between the servers without having AD? I am running my server W2K3 server on a WORKGROUP.

From my reading on the net I see on the sites all the people who have done this have been doing it running their server in a domain.

I also noticed that when I go to Add/Remove Programs to select the Other Network File and Print services I do not see the Microsoft Services for NFS option. Would this be because of the AD requirement or could it be the install files were not the right ones? I got the files from MS's website as I could not locate the second server 2K3 CD.

TIA
wvw

phantom_iv
10-20-2008, 02:41 PM
I just want to know if I can map the users between the servers without having AD?

NFS will work just fine on a standalone box, no nfs required.


I got the files from MS's website as I could not locate the second server 2K3 CD.


do you have 2k3 or 2k3r2? as prior to r2 I think you need services for unix (from ms website) not services for nfs