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

LDAP Integration Support

Network Environments

Chapter 6112

NOTE The HP CIFS Server does not support the Microsoft Active Directory

Services (ADS) conﬁgurations.

Advance Server for UNIX/9000 (ASU) Servers

With LDAP integration, the centralized management of user data helps

you to migrate ASU to CIFS Server. ASU PDC servers can migrate users

to /etc/passwd entries using the migration help package available at

http:// software.hp.com. The HP CIFS Server provides the

/opt/samba/bin/syncsmbpasswd tool to create entries in the

smbpasswd ﬁle. With entries in the /etc/passwd and smbpasswd ﬁles,

you can consolidate both ASU users and UNIX users in an LDAP

directory using the migration scripts discussed later in this chapter.

Workgroup Model Networks

HP CIFS Servers conﬁgured with server mode security will attempt to

authenticate Windows users on the server speciﬁed. If LDAP is enabled,

then authentication will fall back to the LDAP server if the server mode

authentication fails.

HP CIFS Servers conﬁgured with share mode security may replace

smbpasswd with an LDAP directory server.

HP CIFS Servers conﬁgured with as stand-alone user mode servers may

replace smbpasswd with an LDAP directory server.

UNIX User Authentication - /etc/passwd, NIS

Migration

HP UNIX user authentication is required in addition to Samba

(Windows) user authentication for HP CIFS Server logon.You can

consolidate Samba and UNIX users into a single LDAP directory server

database. However, the /etc/passwd ﬁle or NIS database ﬁles can

continue to be used for UNIX users if desired.

You can use migration scripts provided by HP to migrate the

/etc/passwd ﬁle and NIS database ﬁles to the LDAP directory server.

For more information on the migration scripts, see “Migrating Your data

to the Netscape Directory” on page 127.