CIFS implementation

[Martha Mueller]

I am currently using AS/9000. It works quite well for our needs. I am exploring CIFS because it looks like it will replace AS/9000. I would like to set up CIFS as a primary domain controller in it's own domain with no other servers of any kind, but add more unix servers running CIFS later. We have a one-way trust set up from the NT domain to the Unix domain. We have many users mapped to a single unix user id - a production user id. I have read in the FAQ for CIFS that I would need to set up CIFS as a stand alone server. How? How to set up the one-way trust? How to map many NT user id's to a single unix user id - like the mapuname command in AS/9000?

[Pete Ellis · Accepted solution]

Martha,

I have done this by placing the following entries in the following files:

FILE: /etc/opt/samba/smb.mapf
[global]
username = /etc/opt/samba/smb.map
[NT-USER1]
path=/home/dir
valid users = UNIX-user
[NT-USER2] etc, etc .....

FILE: /etc/opt/samba/smp.map
UNIX-user = NT-USER1 NT-USER2 NT-USER3

When you install CIFS/9000 the smb.conf man page will be installed and its all in there, its 146 pages!!!!

[Pete Ellis]

Martha,

Sorry, that first file should be:
FILE: /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf

[Martha Mueller]

Thank you, Pete. I have been working from the on-line manual at docs.hp.com. That one is only 116 pages long and doesn't begin to address this issue.

I would like to assign you 10 points, but I don't see a button for that any more. I'll look again and if I just missed it. But I wanted to make sure you were told that you should have the points.

[Martha Mueller]

Found the assign points button. Had to leave the page and go back into this area to see it.