topic Re: CIFS Authentication in ONTAP Discussions

CIFS Authentication

ad — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:49:18 GMT

We are running Ontap 8.3 .Is it possible to have CIFS provided to 2 windows server without AD authentiation?

Please help ..Urgent.

Thanks

Re: CIFS Authentication

asulliva — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:43:39 GMT

Hello ad,

Unfortunately, when using cDOT, for the SVM to provide CIFS/SMB shares it must be joined to a domain.

EDIT: Also, see this post.

Andrew

Re: CIFS Authentication

hariprak — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:46:00 GMT

Hi,

Before users can create SMB connections to access data contained on the Storage Virtual Machine (SVM), they must be
authenticated by the domain to which the CIFS server belongs.

For more details please refer https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMP1610207

Thanks

Re: CIFS Authentication

SeanHatfield — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:04:50 GMT

Note that although its true, the SVM must be joined to a domain to provide cifs services, the client machine & the user do not have to be domain members or have domain accounts. They can have a local user account within the context of the SVM and authenticate as SVMNAME\user. SVMNAME is the CIFS Server name specified when the SVM was joined to the domain, not necessarily the name of the SVM itself.