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LDAP when cifs is not licensed

cshenberger — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:21:51 GMT

I have an 8.3.1 cmode cluster that I have a need for LDAP authentication to. This cluster is used only for FCP so it does not have CIFS licensed. On my cifs licensed clusters this is easy by using a domain tunnel. How do I create this same access when CIFS is not licensed?

Re: LDAP when cifs is not licensed

aborzenkov — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:41:40 GMT

You should be able to create domain tunnel even without CIFS license.

Re: LDAP when cifs is not licensed

cshenberger — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:55:26 GMT

yes but without cifs how will the domain tunnel talk to the domain? I have configured the user logins and the domain tunnel but I cannot authenticate.

Re: LDAP when cifs is not licensed

francoisbnc — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:15:38 GMT

Hi,

You can create AD vserver connection with vserver active-directory create

and use security login domain-tunnel create if you need AD auth on cluster side.

François

Re: LDAP when cifs is not licensed

cshenberger — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:52:20 GMT

francoisbnc,

Thank you,

That is what I needed. creating the AD account from command line worked and now my ad auth is working.