Required Rights And Permissions For A Cifs User/Administrator - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

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Stop all the running Samba daemons before installing CIFS. Use the following commands:
/etc/init.d/smb stop
/etc/init.d/nmb stop
4.1.3 Required Rights and Permissions for a CIFS User/
Administrator
The NDS user/administrator needs supervisor rights over the container where the server object
is installed.
The NDS user/administrator needs root permissions to install CIFS on an OES 2 Linux server.
The NDS user/administrator needs read, write, create, modify rights over the password policies
sub-container of the security container, for the following reasons:
Adding the CIFS default policy to the password policies.
Modifying policies selected for CIFS, so that the proxy user can read passwords for users
attached to the policy.
Example for CIFS Cluster Rights
The cifs proxy user a, cifs proxy user b, and cifs
proxy user c have the rights to read the eDirectory
CIFS attributes under ou=provo (Virtual server a
and Virtual server b). Hence if these virtual servers
are hosted in any of these three nodes, the
configuration is read by the CIFS service in the
corresponding node.
If the virtual server requires to be migrated across the branches, then the cifs proxy users have to be
given explicit rights on those branches such that the CIFS attribute information can be read.
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The cifs proxy user 1, cifs proxy user 2, and cifs
proxy user 3 have rights to read the eDirectory
CIFS attributes under ou=blr (Virtual server 1 and
Virtual server 2). Hence if these virtual servers are
hosted in any of these three nodes, the
configuration is read by the CIFS service in the
corresponding node.
Guide.