Hello and Thanks in advance for any help.
We are running an ISILON here and while it can provide ISCSI disks, it is not really an option. My need is to provide CIFS access to a web client without anyone being logged into the system. Here is the process:
We are running a web server, that has a very large 60TB CIFS share used as the primary data storage area. I need to have this CIFS share available even when nobody has logged onto the system. So for instance, A Customer logs into the WEB portal of this server, and through the portal sets up a job they need run. When they hit "Run Job", a process starts in the background that needs access to this CIFS share. This process runs as a specific user.
I am not sure how to accomplish this without a lot of back door manipulation. Currently we are using some wrappers to mount this drive at server boot and make it available to the specific user of the process. However this is not a supported solution and the drive always shows up as broken when I log in as an administrative users. It does work ,but I am hoping there is a better solution as there is no supported solution for IFS as a persistent/permanent drive.
The reason we need this is because the application has to see the share as a specific drive letter until we can re-code it to use UNC paths.
Alan Perry.