The docs here:
https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.2/accounts.html
say: "If the network uses a directory service, import the existing account information using the instructions in Directory Services."
I'm unclear on the meaning of "import" there. I do have an LDAP server (actually macOS Open Directory), and while my test FreeNAS can talk to it, getting OD to work with smbldap-tools seems way too hard, so I don't think I'll use FreeNAS + OD at all.
Still, *importing* my users would be useful, to preserve user name, uid, etc. But as best as I can tell, the use of "importing" here doesn't mean a one-time copying in of user names, but rather they are actually talking about binding to LDAP.
Or is there an actual one-time import I'm missing?
https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.2/accounts.html
say: "If the network uses a directory service, import the existing account information using the instructions in Directory Services."
I'm unclear on the meaning of "import" there. I do have an LDAP server (actually macOS Open Directory), and while my test FreeNAS can talk to it, getting OD to work with smbldap-tools seems way too hard, so I don't think I'll use FreeNAS + OD at all.
Still, *importing* my users would be useful, to preserve user name, uid, etc. But as best as I can tell, the use of "importing" here doesn't mean a one-time copying in of user names, but rather they are actually talking about binding to LDAP.
Or is there an actual one-time import I'm missing?