Greetings,

We have a 8.3.2P9 MetroCluster. We bought another company a couple of years ago and have had 2 domains associated with the cluster. The first domain is going to be shutoff in a couple of weeks. We were not too worried about it since we are active on the go-forward domain, and have usermaps with both domains. There is a trust relationship between the 2 domains.

For any of you who have experience with a previous AD domain being decommissioned, I would appreciate any information about problems that occurred.

We just moved some 7-mode data (old filers on new AD domain) to new SVMs on the cluster. All went well but a couple of quirks came up that we can't explain.

We set up local user accounts just like the old ones. All worked fine. File system permissions/owners were good. We realized that we forgot to set up WINS servers. We set up the servers, and the local accounts now show up as SIDs instead of the username.

We also had a process using the new AD domain that would not work. When they used the old AD domain\user, it worked. Once we put the WINS server addresses in, the old AD domain\user account failed. We had to switch back to the new AD domain\user account.

This indicates our local user accounts and other things seem to be tied into our old AD domain. I opened a call with NetApp to try and get more data on what may break.

Thanks,

Jeff