I have 2 clustered filers.  One filer shares several vols via
nfs.  The security on these vols is set to unix.  Some of
them require access from windows in which case a cifs share has been
created and ldap is used to map windows accounts to unix uids/gids.<br>
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On the other filer, all vols are ntfs, there&#39;s no nfs (cifs only), and ldap is configured and enabled.<br>
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We experienced an outage on all cifs connections on both filers when
the one ldap server we were using went down.&nbsp; &quot;net view&quot; (from a
windows client) would hang and explorer couldn&#39;t find the network path.<br>
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I would expect the mapping to fail and windows users to be mapped to
the default pcuser on the unix vols accessed via cifs.&nbsp; I would
also expect the cifs only filer to have no issues continuing to serve
cifs.&nbsp; Is my expectation off?&nbsp; I can resolve the issue by
adding additional ldap hosts but I want to uncover why cifs only
connections are dependent on ldap when my ad domain controllers are
online.&nbsp; <br>
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Thanks, jd<br>