Setting The Search Context; Making Novell Cifs Shares Available To Cifs Users; Novell Cifs Users Access Rights - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 - LAB GUIDE 01-19-2010 Manual

IMPORTANT: If you plan to use Novell CIFS in conjunction with Novell AFP and/or NCP file
services, be sure to read
Implementation

5.2 Setting the Search Context

By default, the search context for CIFS users is set to the container where the OES 2 server is
installed. The CIFS proxy user searches in this context for users seeking access to the CIFS file
service. You must set a context that points to the USERS container where your User objects are
located.
1 In iManager > Roles and Tasks, click File Protocols > CIFS.
2 Click the Browse icon next to the Server field, then browse to and select the OES 2 lab server.
3 Click the Context tab.
4 Select the entry that points to the SERVERS container, then click Delete.
5 Click New.
6 Browse to and select the USERS container, then click OK.
7 Continue with
5.3 Making Novell CIFS Shares Available to CIFS
Users
By default, all NSS volumes hosted on an OES 2 server have shares associated with them. If you
need a share to point to a subdirectory on an NSS volume, then you must create a new share. See
"Adding a New CIFS
If a volume is created while the Novell CIFS service is running, the service must be restarted to
discover the volume.
1 Click the Shares tab.
2 If the HOME_NSS share is listed, skip to
If not, continue with
3 Click the General tab, then click Stop. The service status changes to Stopped.
4 Click the Start sub-tab. The service status changes to Running.
5 Click the Shares tab.
The HOME_NSS share is listed.

5.4 Novell CIFS Users Access Rights

As illustrated in
service, assuming that the service is configured correctly.
However, access to the CIFS file service does not equate to access to the NSS file system and the
folders and files it contains. The Novell File and Directory Trustee Rights model ensures that users
can see only those files and folders to which they have access rights.
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"Cross-Protocol File Locking
Guide.
Making Novell CIFS Shares Available to CIFS
Share" in the OES 2 SP1: Novell CIFS for Linux Administration
Step 3.
Figure 5-1, all eDirectory users have automatic access to the Novell CIFS file
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Users.
Novell CIFS Users Access
Guide.
Rights.