HP CIFS Server 2.2i Administrator's Guide version A.01.11.01

LDAP Integration Support
Overview
Chapter 6110
NOTE While the HP CIFS Server may operate satisfactorily with other LDAP
products, HP only provides LDAP support for the HP CIFS Server with
HP LDAP-UX Integration, J4269AA, and HP Netscape Directory Server,
J4258C, product configurations.
NOTE The HP CIFS Server does not support the SSL feature for the CIFS
server to the LDAP directory in the release version A.01.11.
HP CIFS Advantages
The HP CIFS Server with the LDAP support provides the following
benefits to the customer:
• Reduces the need to maintain user account information across
multiple HP CIFS servers, as LDAP provides a centralized user
database management.
• Easily adds multiple HP CIFS servers or users to the LDAP
directory environment. This greatly improves the scalability of the
HP CIFS Server.
• Stores and looks up user account information in the LDAP directory.
This reduces the user lookup time for large databases by providing
an indexed search rather than a sequential search.
• The amount of information stored in the smbpasswd file has no room
for additional attributes. With the LDAP support, the schema is
extensible, you can store more user information into the LDAP
directory. This also eliminates the need for additional employee and
user databases.