Managing UNIX credentials for CIFS clients

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When connecting to your storage system, a user on a CIFS client receives a CIFS credential. The user must also have one or more UNIX credentials to access resources controlled by Data ONTAP.

Managing UNIX credentials for CIFS clients involves the tasks described in the following sections:

How CIFS users obtain UNIX credentials
How Data ONTAP maps user names
How to specify entries for the /etc/usermap.cfg file
How Data ONTAP interprets domain names in /etc/usermap.cfg
Examples of usermap.cfg entries
Guidelines and recommendations for mapping user names
Mapping a Windows account to root
Mapping UNIX names to UIDs and GIDs
Creating or disabling the default UNIX user account
Enabling or disabling the Windows guest user account