How do you configure a NetApp Filer to use LDAP for username/password/uid?

We have a NetApp Filer, and want to access it via Samba/CIFS, and have it use the username/password/uid available in our OpenLDAP server. We already do this successfully with Samba 3 against OpenLDAP, so we have all the appropriate posix attributes as well as NT/LanManager password attributes.

The goal is that a user can mount their directory in Windows with the same username/password as their Linux login, and files created there will have the correct uid so it just works when they go back to Linux.

Again, we have all this working with Samba/OpenLDAP/Linux, so the question is not about that configuration. It's about configuring a NetApp against such a system.

From serverfault Jared Oberhaus

• I believe this is what you want:

  options ldap.base dc=example,dc=com
  options ldap.servers ldap.example.com
  options ldap.enable on
  edit nsswitch.conf
  
  

  Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf

  hosts: files dns
  passwd: ldap files
  netgroup: ldap files
  group: ldap files
  shadow: files nis
  
  This now link requires a valid login

  As always its worth testing things on the simulator first :)

  Jared Oberhaus : Thanks! I'll try that out.

  James : If you have any issues then edit the question.
  From James