If the user names are the same on the Windows side and the Unix side, regardless of what Domain those users are a part of, you shouldn't have any issues with the drive mappings. As defined in the "System Administration - File Access Management Guide for Data ONTAP 6.5" pg.93, these are the steps taken when a CIFS session is requested:
- It searches the /etc/usermap.cfg to see whether an entry matches the
user's Windows domain name and user name.
- If an entry is found, Data ONTAP uses the UNIX name specified in the
entry to look up the UID and GID from the UNIX password database. If the UNIX name is a null string, Data ONTAP denies access to the CIFS user.
- If an entry is not found, Data ONTAP converts the Windows name to
lowercase and considers the UNIX name to be the same as the Windows name. Data ONTAP uses this UNIX name to look up the UID and GID from the UNIX password database.
If that doesn't work, you also might want to look into setting up the usermap.cfg file in such a way that will work in your environment.
Regards,
Thanks, but that's not the problem. Right now when you "map network drive" and you fill in the username field in the dialog box, you do not need to specify a domain name. If you enter "fred" in the dialog box then your PC supplies a domain name for you automatically. Because we are using Unix style login for CIFS, the filer strips off the domain name and looks up your account using just "fred".
However, once we switch to Windows domain auth, if you enter just "fred" in the username field, and if your PC supplies something other than "eservices" for the domain name (very likely here) then your username is incorrect and you cannot login. You don't even get to the point where your Windows domain credentials are mapped to your Unix UID, etc.
Our user education problem is teaching 30,000 people who currently enter just "fred" to start entering "eservices\fred" instead. I was hoping that there might be a magic option on the filer that would help us avoid this.
Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640
University of Virginia ITC Unix Support