xSAN + SMB Reshare + OS 10.4.10 Clients

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I have run into a problem on now 3 different deployments of xsan.

I have a 10.4.10 Intel Server, Multiple RAIDs. I reshare the volume via AFP and SMB for a “General Shared” at a couple different locations.

Problem:

If I use SMB on the mac – the shares mount with issue, but have zero kb available, I’d prefer to use SMB, it has been much faster in the past for resharing a san
If I use AFP on the mac – no issues – clients vary from 10.4.6 – 10.4.10 – all bound in to the local directory server (AD or OD)
If I connect from an XP or XPx64 workstation – no issues – using SMB

All 3 setups are Intel Based with 10.4.10 Server
4 or 8GB Ram
2 MDC – Primary, Secondary
1 File Server
1 Backup Server – 1 fiber link to SAN, second Fiber to Magnum224 or 448 (depends on site)

one Setup is 5x new xRAIDs – 1 Meta Pool spanned across 3 drives (R5) the other 4 drives are unused. the remaining 9 controllers make 1 very large volume.
the other 2 setups are 2x new xRAIDs – 1 meta spanned across 3 drives (R5) the other controllers making a 12TB Volume. – Also R5 (4.09TB storage Pool)

1 server is pulling its directory information from AD
the other 2 setups are pulling from an OD server located onsite.

I used at 4k block with 256mb stripe – 1MB – kept smaller because of data file size – mostly smaller size files (under 20mb)
using “Balance” to improve the speed and span the data across the controllers

These are all fresh built computers – other than this issue there have been no problems with the setup. The speed is quite impressive, users are happy. I’m hosting AFP home folders off 2 of the setups (mobile – sync’d)

The largest of the 3 setups has about 100 users connecting to the reshares
1 has 3 users
1 has 35 users

Help me out please!

db

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