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Hi,
Is it possible to manage a filer with and AD account without a CIFS License?
We have 6 Filers and we do have a CIFS licencse for only 4. For those 4, we can use a active Directory account to manage it, but can we do the same thing for the two that do not have the licenses?
Thanks
Réal Waite
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You can still join the domain without a license and add domainusers for login...
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Will it work also without FCP/iSCSI (i.e. pure NFS)?
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Yes. Cifs setup will run for authentication without a license.
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Hi Scott,
Can you tell me how to do it because I have this message when I tried the command "cifs setup"
filer> cifs setup
CIFS is not licensed.
(Use the "license" command to license it.)
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What version of ontap? It may have changed since I last did it. But on a San only customer have it authenticating without a cifs license.
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That’s correct, block protocol licenses enable some CIFS functionality; but I have never heard it was possible with NFS only filer.
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I'll check of documented but remember doing it just to get domain user for login. What I am wondering now is if we had a demo key and if it just kept working after. But can't think of a change when cifs setup was disabled...but from the last post it obviously is and I missed it.
What was the ontap and licenses in the system?
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Hi Scott,
DOT 7.3.6
thanks
Réal
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I just ran through some what if scenarios in my vsim.. If fcp or iscsi or cifs are licensed (any of the 3) then cifs setup works. If one of the 3 are not licensed then you get the error that it needs a license. What I did find is that if cifs is already setup, it will still start and run for authentication even without any of the 3 licensed.
I would talk to your NetApp team and ask about a demo key so you can setup cifs, cifs setup, then delete the license. You won't be using it for protocol access just authentication and that would be a workaround (if approved). If you ever need to modify it then you would need a key again... you don't have iscsi or fcp licensed on this system and nfs only?
Something learned new again today...or relearned With the nfs only system a while ago... iscsi was free on all controllers back then and cifs setup would have worked the based on that. That has to be what happened when I setup cifs only for domainuser login.