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Manager, click Configuration. A menu expands beneath Configuration with a list of choices.
Click Active Directory. The Active Directory screen appears and displays the ADS Config
panel.
The ADS Config panel is broken into three separate tabs, Basic Settings, UID Mapping, and
Advanced KRB Settings. These tabs are discussed in the following sections:
• Basic Settings
• UID Mapping
• Advanced KRB Settings
Basic Settings
The Basic Settings tab, located under the Active Directory screen, includes information
needed for the Scale Computing cluster to connect to your Active Directory server, including:
• ADS State - Check this box to turn ADS on, or uncheck it to turn it off. You need the ADS
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checkbox set to on for CIFS and set to off for NFS.
Admin User - Administrator username for the Active Directory Server. This does not have
to be the traditional Administrator account, but needs to be an account with sufficient privilege to access the Active Directory server and add a new machine to the domain.
Admin Pass - This is the password for the user listed in the Admin User field.
Confirm Pass - This provides confirmation of the password listed in the Admin Pass field.
Change Existing Password - Click this button to change the password for the Admin User
listed. Your password must be at least four characters long.
Win Domain - This is the name of the domain.
ADS Server FQDN - This is the Active Directory Server Fully Qualified Domain Name.
Use the fully qualified domain name of the server to which you want the Scale Computing
cluster to connect. This is important for proper population of Kerberos settings.
Win Version - The OS version on the host running Active Directory Server (ADS). The
Scale Computing cluster supports Windows Server 2003 and 2008. The Other option is for
non-traditional servers; however, Scale Computing does not provide support for nonMicrosoft ADS implementations, and cannot guarantee interoperability with these platforms.
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