Veritas NetBackup™ Deduplication Guide

The universal share feature supports two methods of user authentication:

• Active Directory-based user authentication

• Local user-based authentication

If the Samba service is not part of Windows domain, perform the following steps:

• For a NetBackup Appliance:

  For a NetBackup Appliance, local users are also Samba users. To manage local users, log in to the CLISH and select Main > Settings > Security > Authentication > LocalUser. The Samba password is the same as the local user's login password.

• For an MDSP BYO server:

  For an MDSP BYO server, create a Linux user (if one does not exist). Then, add the user to Samba.

  For example, the following commands create a test_samba_user use for the Samba service only:

  # adduser --no-create-home -s /sbin/nologin test_samba_user

  # smbpasswd -a test_samba_user

  To add an existing user to the Samba service, run the following command:

  # smbpasswd -a username

• For a Flex Appliance application instance:

  For a Flex Appliance application instance, log in to the instance and add any local user to Samba, as follows:

  • If desired, create a new local user with the following commands:

    #useradd <username>
    #passwd <username>

    You can also use an existing local user.

  • Run the following commands to create user credentials for Samba and enable the user:

    smbpasswd -a <username>
    smbpasswd -e <username>