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Veritas Access Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2021-04-15

Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)

Platform: 3340

Joining Veritas Access to Active Directory (AD)

To join Veritas Access to Active Directory (AD)

To stop the CIFS server, enter the following command.
```
CIFS> server stop
```
To set the domain, enter the following command:
```
CIFS> set domain accesstest-ad2.local
```
In this example, it is the same as the DNS domain name.
This is the domain name of Active Directory.
To set the domain controller, enter the following command:
```
CIFS> set domaincontroller <IP address>
```
The IP address can be the IP address of the Active Directory Domain Controller. The DNS server and Active Directory can run on different servers, and hence this IP address may be different from the IP address of the DNS server.
To set the domain user, enter the following command:
```
CIFS> set domainuser newuser
```
This is a user whose credentials are used to join the Active Directory domain. The domainuser must have Domain Join privilege into the Active Directory domain. The domainuser need not be Administrator.
To set the CIFS security mode, enter the following command:
```
CIFS> set security ads
```
The other CIFS security mode is user for local users. For authenticating to Active Directory, use the ads CIFS security mode.
To start the CIFS server, enter the following command:
```
CIFS> server start
```
Veritas Access displays the time on the cluster as well as the time on the Active Directory Domain Controller.
If NTP has been configured correctly, then there will be no time skew.
Otherwise, you will need to reconfigure NTP correctly.
You will be prompted to enter the password of domainuser.
To set the workgroup name if the WORKGROUP or NetBIOS domain name is different from the domain name, enter the following:
```
CIFS> set workgroup workgroup
```
where workgroup sets the WORKGROUP name. If the name of the WORKGROUP or NetBIOS domain name is different from the domain name, use this command to set the WORKGROUP name.
For example, if SIMPLE is the name of the WORKGROUP you want to set, you would enter the following:
```
CIFS> set workgroup SIMPLE
```
Though the following symbols $,( ), ', and & are valid characters for naming a WORKGROUP, the Veritas Access CIFS implementation does not allow using these symbols.