HP CIFS Server 3.0b Administrator's Guide version A.02.01.01

LDAP Integration Support

Overview

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You can conﬁgure the ldap ssl parameter speciﬁed in the smb.conf ﬁle

to enable the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support. With the SSL support,

the HP CIFS Server allows you to access an enabled SSL LDAP directory

to protect passwords over the network and to ensure conﬁdentiality and

data integrity between CIFS servers and SSL enabled LDAP directory

server. You can set passdb backend = ldapsam:ldaps://<fully

qualitied name of NDS server> to enable the SSL support.

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,

J4258CA, product conﬁgurations.

HP CIFS Server 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.