CIFS mounts and local users

[Mark Harshman_1]

we use CIFS to mount NT shares to HPUX servers for the purpose of moving files. usually we have to have an account set up on the windows server as a LOCAL user. Is there a way to set up this account on the windows machine where it can be a domian user and work? i have not had success with this in the past. if anyone is aware, i would appreciate it. thanks

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

You have some choices.

If you do samba integration security=domain or security=ads and then join the system to the domain, user integrity will be maintained.

A local account on the NT box will not match the Unix box in the important issue of numeric user id, which will trip you up without integration.

SEP

[Eric Raeburn]

Mark,

Have you tried the "-D " option to cifslogin or cifsmount? From your brief description, it seems like that may do it for you. See the manpages for cifslogin and cifsmount for details. If there are no such manpages on your system, or the "-D" option does not exist, then you have an old version of the CIFS Client, and upgrading is highly recommended. The latest version is available free at software.hp.com.

Good luck,
-Eric

[Mark Harshman_1]

thanks for the info