Freed from the Novell client

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• AFS,
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• Netware,
• Native File Access

Scott Lowe

Published: 29 Jan 2003 11:25 GMT

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Once you've finished installing everything, you must restart your server. You can do so by typing restart server at the server console prompt. When the server restarts, you should reapply the latest Support Pack to your server. When the Support Pack has installed, you can start using Native File Access.

Controlling the CIFS Native File Access service
Probably the easiest part of this whole process is starting the CIFS services on the NetWare server. When you restart your server, CIFS will load automatically because the installation program adds the appropriate commands to the server's Autoexec.ncf file.

If for some reason you need to start or stop the service manually, it's as simple as typing cifsstrt to start the service and cifsstop to stop the service at the server's console prompt. You might need to do this is if you make a change to the CIFS configuration.

Administering the service and related users
Because I chose the local authentication method, every user that makes use of the CIFS protocol needs both a user name and a simple password assigned in NDS. The simple password is separate from the NDS user object password and can be different from the user's NDS password. If the password is different, the user will use the simple password when authenticating with native protocols and the NDS user object password when authenticating with the Novell client.

You can create a simple password for a user via ConsoleOne, which you run from SYS:public/mgmt/ConsoleOne/1.2/bin/ConsoleOne.exe. You must do this from a Windows workstation running a minimum version of the Novell client, as described earlier.

For example, I'll assign a simple password to a user named slowe in NDS. To do this in ConsoleOne, I'll click on the Login Methods tab, choose Simple Password from the list, and enter the appropriate information, as shown in Figure H.

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