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Jared Oberhaus
Asked: 2009-07-19 15:29:46 +0800 CST

How do you configure a NetApp Filer to use LDAP for username/password/uid?

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We have a NetApp Filer, and want to access it via Samba/CIFS, and have it use the username/password/uid available in our OpenLDAP server. We already do this successfully with Samba 3 against OpenLDAP, so we have all the appropriate posix attributes as well as NT/LanManager password attributes.

The goal is that a user can mount their directory in Windows with the same username/password as their Linux login, and files created there will have the correct uid so it just works when they go back to Linux.

Again, we have all this working with Samba/OpenLDAP/Linux, so the question is not about that configuration. It's about configuring a NetApp against such a system.

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  1. Best Answer

    I believe this is what you want:

    options ldap.base dc=example,dc=com
    options ldap.servers ldap.example.com
    options ldap.enable on
    edit nsswitch.conf

    Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf

    hosts: files dns
    passwd: ldap files
    netgroup: ldap files
    group: ldap files
    shadow: files nis

    This now link requires a valid login

    As always its worth testing things on the simulator first :)

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