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Veritas Access Appliance Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2023-10-29

Product(s): Appliances (8.0)

Platform: Access Appliance OS,Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350

Reconfiguring the CIFS service

Sometime after you have configured the CIFS service, and used it for a while, you need to change some of the settings. For example, you may want to allow the use of trusted domains or you need to move Access Appliance from one security domain to another. To carry out these changes, set the new settings and then start the CIFS server. As a general rule, you should stop the CIFS service before making the changes.

An example where Access Appliance is moved to a new security domain (while the mode of operation stays unchanged as, AD domain) is referenced below.

This example deals with reconfiguring CIFS. So make sure that if any of the other AD services like DNS or NTP are being used by Access Appliance, that Access Appliance has already been configured to use these services from the AD server belonging to the new domain.

Make sure that the DNS service, NTP service and, if used as an ID mapping store, also the LDAP service, are configured as required for the new domain.

To reconfigure the CIFS service, do the following:

Make sure that the server is not running.
Set the domain user, domain, and domain controller.
Start the CIFS server.

To set the user name, AD domain and AD server

To set the AD client configuration details, enter the following:
```
Network> ad set domain domaincontroller	workgroup	domainuser
```
You can set the AD client's domain, domain controller, workgroup and domain user. A domain controller can either be an Active Directory server or a Windows NT 4.0 domain controller. A domainuser is the username which is used for authentication in the domain join operation.

To start the CIFS server

To start the CIFS server, enter the following:
```
CIFS> server start
```
To make sure that the service is running, enter the following:
```
CIFS> server status
```
To find the current settings, enter the following:
```
CIFS> show
```