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cifs share standalone access management
Hi Colleagues
I have a question on cifs share standalone, the application folks have been provided the cifs server with administrator credentials, now they have some more users required to access shares through the same cifs server, I believe that the access to the users should be managed from their side, since they already have the adminsitrator access to the cifs server , correct ?
Another question is that, what could be an impact of adding a new AD domain for easing the user management, in the current productive environment, we can create a new cifs server , add to the domain, but migrating the data from old stand alone cifs server with permission would be a manual job ??
Would appreciate a reply on this.
Best Regards
Rahul
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October 2nd, 2015 08:00
yes - you need to use the Windows tools to manage local users
you can create a new CIFS server pointing to the old data or join your standalone CIFS server into the domain.
Adding permissions to that AD users are then allowed to access data is a manual job from the Windows client side.