The following table contains Nasuni recommendations for configuring volumes, based on the objectives for the volume. Configuration includes consideration of the following:
Objective of volume | Original volume protocol | Additional volume protocol | Set Authentication to … | Set Permissions Policy to … | Set Case Sensitivity to … | Options available include: | Unsupported features include: |
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SMB clients only (Microsoft Windows clients, macOS clients) (no NFS, no FTP) | SMB (CIFS) | None | Active Directory | NTFS Exclusive | No | Durable handles (with SMB 2.0+ and GFL disabled). Web Access. Global File Lock Advanced and Optimized mode. | NFS. FTP. LDAP. Multiple volume protocols.
Switching from NTFS Exclusive to NTFS Compatible. |
SMB clients + FTP (Microsoft Windows clients, macOS clients) | SMB (CIFS) | FTP | Active Directory | NTFS Compatible
or POSIX | Yes (Case sensitivity required to add FTP) | FTP. Web Access. Global File Lock: Advanced and Optimized mode. Switch from NTFS Compatible to NTFS Exclusive. | NFS.
LDAP |
NFS clients (UNIX or Linux clients) | NFS | None | Active Directory | POSIX | Yes (cannot be changed) | FTP. Global File Lock: Optimized mode. | CIFS (SMB) volumes.
Web Access. |
NFS + SMB Clients: IDs mapped between SMB/NFS using AD Unix Extensions (Microsoft Windows clients, macOS clients, UNIX or Linux clients) | NFS | SMB (CIFS) | Active Directory | POSIX (translated to NTFS) | Yes (cannot be changed) | FTP. Web Access. Global File Lock: Optimized mode | LDAP. |
SMB + NFS Basic InterOp: no ID mapping (Microsoft Windows clients, macOS clients, UNIX or Linux clients) | SMB (CIFS) | NFS | Active Directory | NTFS Compatible
+ POSIX | Yes (Case sensitivity required to add NFS and FTP protocols) | FTP. Web Access. Global File Lock: Optimized mode. Can switch from NTFS Compatible to NTFS Exclusive. | NFS-only volumes.
LDAP authentication. |
