Is Domain Membership Required for CIFS Permissions?

[gzartman]

I have a few CIFS shares setup to mount points on my FreeNAS box. I'm messing around with writing windows files directly to the shares. I have a windows 2012R2 domain controller that does all of my user authentication.

Do I need to join the FreeNAS box to the domain to get user/group owership written to the files/dirs written to the cifs share? The perms I'm getting now are the default I setup in the dataset permission settings.

Thanks

Greg

 

[SweetAndLow]

Shouldn't have to but you probably should bed because it will make life easier. You will have to create all the users you want to access the shares on freenas.

 

[gzartman]

Thanks.

At this point, I'm using FreeNAS as a backup repository. I just want to sync data from one of my primary data arrays over to FreeNAS.

I'd like to be able to copy over all of the users/groups along with the ACLs. I was only able to copy over ACLs. However, this isn't the end of the world. I don't use quotas on my fileserver, so I can just re-apply user/group when the files are moved back to the main server if I need a restore.

I'll play around with adding freenas to the domain at some point.