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Directory Services

The Directory services option provides three directory services. Default is Standalone, which
supports local account only. The others are Active Directory for Windows and LDAP services.
UnifiedAUTH mechanism is the backbone of all the directory services. It simplifies the use of all
the data services (CIFS, NFS, AFP, FTP, WebDAV, iSCSI) and frees the users from memorizing
different account/password sets for different data services. The benefits are:
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Only one directory service can be enabled at all time. No two directory services can be enabled at
the same time. Switching directory service will result in losing Access Control List of all shares from
the previous directory service.
Select the radio button to change the directory service:
 Standalone
Standalone support local user/group accounts only. It's the default setting.
When it is done, click Apply button.
Active Directory
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Active Directory service supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008 Active Directory to
manage the accounts. The maximum number of AD users and groups is 65536.
Enter the settings of Active Directory above. When it is done, click Apply button. If the
information is correct, the AD accounts will be added in System configuration -> Account ->
User account -> Domain user and Group account -> Domain group. It will take some time to
download the accounts at the first time. And then it will synchronize with the server
automatically.
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Easier use of all data services
Simplified management
TIP:
In order to make sure you can successfully login Active Directory server, please
make sure the following two requirements are met.
Primary DNS (Domain Name Server) setting is identical to that of the Active
Directory server.
The system time is synchronous with that of the Active Directory server with
less than 1 minute tolerance.
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