HP CIFS Server 3.0f Administrator's Guide verison A.02.03

LDAP Backend Support
When multiple CIFS Servers participate in a Windows NT or Windows ADS domain and make use of
winbind, you can configure multiple CIFS Servers to store ID maps in an LDAP directory. Making use of
an LDAP server and configuring CIFS servers with the idmap backend parameter in smb.conf will ensure
that all UIDs and GIDs are unique across the domain. This is important in order to support Windows access
to NFS shares. HP CIFS Server does not support the ad option for idmap backend. For ADS environments,
you can consider to use idmap_rid. See the “idmap_rid Backend Support” section for detailed information
Configuring the LDAP Backend
To manage ID maps in an LDAP backend server, set idmap backend = ldap:ldap://<LDAP server name>.
The following is an example of /etc/smb.conf file which has machine ldaphostA.company.com as
the idmap backend:
[global]
workgroup = DomainA # Doamin name
security = domain
# idmap section
idmap uid = 50000-60000
idmap gid = 50000-60000
idmap backend = ldap://ldap://ldaphostA.company.com
ldap idmap suffix = ou=idmap, dc=org, dc=company, dc=com
ldap admin dn = "cn=Directory Manager"
ldap suffix = dc=org, dc=company, dc=com
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