HP CIFS Windows 2000 Interoperability (October 2002)

CIFS/9000 and Windows 2000 Interoperability

Hewlett-Packard

What this screen actually does is to allow the built-in group Everyone to be nested under the

built-in group “Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access Group.” This nesting is configured

when choosing the option labeled “Permissions compatible with pre-Windows 2000 servers.”

Nesting the Everyone group allows anonymous connections to domain resources. NT4.0

clients use anonymous (null) connections, and thus would encounter compatibility issues if

they were rejected because of inadequate permissions. This is not very clear from the screen

description and from its placement in the installation sequence.

Considering the effects of the configuration options, the second choice would likely only be

selected if the domain is intended to be deployed in Native Mode. See the following Microsoft

Q articles for details about the effects:

• Q257988

• Q257942

• Q254311

If a CIFS/9000 server is deployed in a native mode domain, the “Permissions compatible with

pre-Windows servers” option must be selected. The Q-articles describe how to enable or

disable this attribute manually (the configuration screen is only accessible during

installation).

MIXED

NATIVE

Enable if:

*Enable if:

MIXED

NATIVE

Enable if:

*Enable if: