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Veritas Access Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2021-04-15

Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)

Platform: 3340

Reconfiguring the CIFS service

Sometime after you have configured the CIFS service, and used it for a while, you need to change some of the settings. For example, you may want to allow the use of trusted domains or you need to move Veritas Access from one security domain to another. To carry out these changes, set the new settings and then start the CIFS server. As a general rule, you should stop the CIFS service before making the changes.

An example where Veritas Access is moved to a new security domain (while the mode of operation stays unchanged as, AD domain) is referenced below.

This example deals with reconfiguring CIFS. So make sure that if any of the other AD services like DNS or NTP are being used by Veritas Access, that Veritas Access has already been configured to use these services from the AD server belonging to the new domain.

Make sure that the DNS service, NTP service and, if used as an ID mapping store, also the LDAP service, are configured as required for the new domain.

To reconfigure the CIFS service, do the following:

Make sure that the server is not running.
Set the domain user, domain, and domain controller.
Start the CIFS server.

To set the user name for the AD

To verify that the CIFS server is stopped, enter the following:
```
CIFS> server status
```
If the server is running, stop the server, and enter the following:
```
CIFS> server stop
```
To set the user name for the AD, enter the following:
```
CIFS> set domainuser username
```
where username is the name of an existing AD domain user who has permission to perform the join domain operation.

To set the AD domain

To set the AD domain, enter the following:
```
CIFS> set domain domainname
```
where domainname is the name of the domain. This command also sets the system workgroup. For example:

To set the AD server

To set the AD server, enter the following:
```
CIFS> set domaincontroller servername
```
where servername is the AD server IP address or DNS name.
If you use the AD server name, you must configure Veritas Access to use a DNS server that can resolve this name.

To start the CIFS server

To start the CIFS server, enter the following:
```
CIFS> server start
```
To make sure that the service is running, enter the following:
```
CIFS> server status
```
To find the current settings, enter the following:
```
CIFS> show
```