topic AD Domain changing OU's - will this affect access to CIFS Shares? in ONTAP Discussions

AD Domain changing OU's - will this affect access to CIFS Shares?

NetApp93 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:39:40 GMT

Hello all,

I just caught wind that our AD OU's will be altered on this upcoming Monday, and I immediately thought of our CIFS server computer account that is in one of our OU's. From what I am gathering from this KB article, we shouldn't experience any connection issues however I wanted to do my due diligence and ask all you smart people. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Re: AD Domain changing OU's - will this affect access to CIFS Shares?

TMACMD — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:52:38 GMT

As long as you don’t require ONTAPs OU indicator to match that in AD your are correct. To modify the ou, you need to stop cifs too make the change

Re: AD Domain changing OU's - will this affect access to CIFS Shares?

NetApp93 — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:56:36 GMT

Just curious, is there any reason one would need it to match?