Help needed with NAS to NAS replication not working anymore/ Cant authenticate to NAS

[homesick1337]

Hello,

Currently I have 2 NAS systems. 1 NAS in Town and 1 NAS in a Country area of Hawaii.

These Nas use a File Replication Service to cause each NAS to Mirror each other. We have been using this for about 4 years without issue. Recently out Network guy quit and this problem happened a few months later. We are at a lost as to why it happened. For now we all write to the Town Nas till we can get the Country NAS up and running.

This is fine for the town users who write to there NAS how ever the country users complain about the time to write to it.

The issue is the user is not able authenticate off the country NAS. We unsure why. How ever the user can authenticate off the Town on just fine.

How should we go about solving this? We have backs ups up to date and wanted a opinion on what steps we should take and what could be the problem.

My co workers are speculating if its something to do with a distributed File System, the file replication services or the IPsec communication. We just know we cant authenticate when we trying to connect.

If anyone has any idea on what we should take a look at please let me know.

Thank You!

 

[homesick1337]

Update:

Our Country NAS allows us to write and create a file. The only way we can log in though is to constantly ping it for a reply. It makes no sense to us.


We have 2 Dell Tower Vaults for our NAS.


If this helps.

 

[thiggins]

You would need to provide a lot more details about how things are set up before anyone could help. For example, what is doing the authentication, how are the NASes connected to the Internet.

I'd look for a good local networking person to help you sort things out. You should also have someone look at the systems to change passwords and make sure that your former networking person didn't leave any backdoors.

 

[claykin]

I'd look for a good local networking person to help you sort things out. You should also have someone look at the systems to change passwords and make sure that your former networking person didn't leave any backdoors.

Mr. Potatohead! Backdoors are not secrets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNiiBrEHBWA