Samba Server Configuration in Centos 6.2

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We could, in fact, get a high school intern into the discussion to demonstrate what I mean

@Mike-Ralston is not your average intern.

Lakshmana

@scottalanmiller said:
My Senior Engineer got scolding from Manager because of me in RAID rebuilding at one company.So he was trying to protect himself and he gives me the work to confirm the status of the RAID as well as Data

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@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

We could, in fact, get a high school intern into the discussion to demonstrate what I mean

@Mike-Ralston ?

I would assume so. But he's already at a senior L1 level or even L2 level with everything he's done in training with @scottalanmiller, etc. So that's a bad example.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

We could, in fact, get a high school intern into the discussion to demonstrate what I mean

@Mike-Ralston ?

I would assume so. But he's already at a senior L1 level or even L2 level with everything he's done in training with @scottalanmiller, etc. So that's a bad example.

I don't think that's too uncommon. I did work study when I was in highschool. It was unpaid though.

scottalanmiller

I think that the best answer here is going to be this....

@Lakshmana, you need to be looking for another job. The company that you are at now does not have someone qualified to be your mentor, it doesn't even have someone qualified to be your student. You need to work at a place with a qualified IT professional working there that you can work under. It can be someone very junior, that doesn't matter, as long as they are actually an IT professional. The person you are working for right now is a con artist. He doesn't know the first thing about IT and is not helping you to learn but is just wasting your time which is the same as throwing away your career.

You don't have the money to do lots of IT at home. That makes things very rough. But you aren't getting to do good work and good learning at work, so this is an impossible situation. I know that this is your first job, but it is a bad one. There is no future in this company and working there is going to hold you back. Start looking for something else. You need to get out and find a company that will help you learn and grow so that you can have a successful career.

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller said:
My Senior Engineer got scolding from Manager because of me in RAID rebuilding at one company.

What happened there to cause that though?

scottalanmiller

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Mike-Ralston is not your average intern.

Nope, he's much younger than your average intern

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Mike-Ralston is not your average intern.

Nope, he's much younger than your average intern

Still WAY more qualified than most of the guys I work with in L1 at my current full-time job.

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller said:
My Senior Engineer got scolding from Manager because of me in RAID rebuilding at one company.So he was trying to protect himself and he gives me the work to confirm the status of the RAID as well as Data

No, he is giving you tasks that are distracting you from those things. He's confused and is causing problems, rather than fixing them. He's not responding logically to the scolding. He should be learning what RAID is, not stopping you from fixing problems.

Lakshmana

@thecreativeone91 said:
The motherboard at one company is not working and it was fired.Now I tested with the motherboard A and configured RAID 1 in hard A1 and A2.Then I tested the hard disk in the other motherboard B and inserted the hard disk A1 and A2.So the RAID is working properly.So I need to suggest them the motherboard to be buyed them.So now I finished checking RAID.But my senior engineer said me to check the SAMBA server also to verify the sharing of Data

scottalanmiller

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Mike-Ralston is not your average intern.

Nope, he's much younger than your average intern

Still WAY more qualified than most of the guys I work with in L1 at my current full-time job.

Most of them probably didn't intern. Interns or people who did internships tend to be the top end of the field because they are the ones able to and interested in getting into the field earliest and in the most productive way.

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@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Mike-Ralston is not your average intern.

Nope, he's much younger than your average intern

Still WAY more qualified than most of the guys I work with in L1 at my current full-time job.

Most of them probably didn't intern. Interns or people who did internships tend to be the top end of the field because they are the ones able to and interested in getting into the field earliest and in the most productive way.

I started my career at an internship. My first real IT job started as an internship, which was how I first met @scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen.

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@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 said:
The motherboard at one company is not working and it was fired.Now I tested with the motherboard A and configured RAID 1 in hard A1 and A2.Then I tested the hard disk in the other motherboard B and inserted the hard disk A1 and A2.So the RAID is working properly.So I need to suggest them the motherboard to be buyed them.So now I finished checking RAID.But my senior engineer said me to check the SAMBA server also to verify the sharing of Data

Yes, but what does setting up SAMBA prove? It proves you can setup SAMBA. It proves you have a network connection. It doesn't prove anything more than you already have by testing the disks on a new motherboard and accessing everything locally.

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller, I understand the situation @Lakshmana is in. He reads it here and it makes sense, but trying to take what you read here and then regurgitate it to someone else who then fires questions you're not necessarily prepared for is another thing. He probably has tried relaying this to his boss and/or the senior engineer. Then they say something that frazzles him and it makes him feel stupid (not that he is) and his boss/senior engineer feel superior/right. Been there many a time with discussions with coworkers about a plethora of topics.

scottalanmiller

@thanksajdotcom said:

Yes, but what does setting up SAMBA prove? It proves you can setup SAMBA. It proves you have a network connection. It doesn't prove anything more than you already have by testing the disks on a new motherboard and accessing everything locally.

This is very important. The client could easily be left with no working RAID and your senior engineer will claim that he has tested it without having tested anything. He's avoiding knowing his job and hoping to cover up that he doesn't understand what is going on.

@Lakshmana said:

@thecreativeone91 said:
The motherboard at one company is not working and it was fired.Now I tested with the motherboard A and configured RAID 1 in hard A1 and A2.Then I tested the hard disk in the other motherboard B and inserted the hard disk A1 and A2.So the RAID is working properly.So I need to suggest them the motherboard to be buyed them.So now I finished checking RAID.But my senior engineer said me to check the SAMBA server also to verify the sharing of Data

Is the server suppose to be a file server and you need to setup shares? if so that makes sense. But it is unrelated to checking the raid or motherboard replacement. Infact why would all the config not still be there that was from before the replacement. There should be no reason to reimage with a motherboard replacement (especially of the same model).

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

There should be no reason to reimage with a motherboard replacement (especially of the same model).

Even of a different model since there is no connection between the board and the RAID. Only issue is if the drives re-identify themselves. Same issue you have on every reboot of a Cisco UCS - a great reason to avoid that garbage.

PSX_Defector

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

There should be no reason to reimage with a motherboard replacement (especially of the same model).

Even of a different model since there is no connection between the board and the RAID. Only issue is if the drives re-identify themselves. Same issue you have on every reboot of a Cisco UCS - a great reason to avoid that garbage.

Whaaaaaaaa? I've never seen a drive blow off a profile in UCS. What in the world have you been doing?

scottalanmiller

@PSX_Defector said:

Whaaaaaaaa? I've never seen a drive blow off a profile in UCS. What in the world have you been doing?

I've seen it a lot. VMAX over FCoE to large UCS blade chassis. Drive IDs flipped constantly. One of many, many complications that made the UCS just the crappiest gear I've ever seen a business duped into buying in the last decade.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Whaaaaaaaa? I've never seen a drive blow off a profile in UCS. What in the world have you been doing?

I've seen it a lot. VMAX over FCoE to large UCS blade chassis. Drive IDs flipped constantly. One of many, many complications that made the UCS just the crappiest gear I've ever seen a business duped into buying in the last decade.

Uh Oh. a local datacenter I do contract work with is looking to replace the AS/400's (or whatever they call it now since they keep changing the name) with Cisco UCS gear.