Storageflex 3945N manual How will I know that Appliance is already joined into ADS?

ApplianceWare v.5.3 Complete FAQ – February 24, 2004 – Page 22 of 30

in again, click the Advanced Settings, and switch to the Security tab. Choose Native mode.

a)Enter the pre-Windows 2000 domain name into the Domain name field, just like you did it before at the Name/DNS tab.

b)Enter the Active Directory Services name or IP address (it should be your ADS server).

c)Enter the Realm name, which is just a domain name that you have written down at the very beginning of your setup. Please use only upper-casecharacters in this case.

d)Enter the KDC name, which is usually the same as your ADS server.

e)WINS Server IP address is an optional value, so you can leave it set to 0.0.0.0.

f)Click the Accept button, and enter the username and password for the user account that you have created on your ADS server at the previous step.

1.5.1.2 How will I know that Appliance is already joined into ADS?

You can see it using MMC or looking at Network Neighborhood ( or My Network Places in recent versions of Windows.

1.5.1.3 In what cases Appliance wouldn't join to ADS domain?

The reasons to get troubles during joining into domain may be as follows:

•wrong DNS configuration both for Appliance and ADS server; the best condition is when ADS server could be resolved by DNS server in current domain or ADS server itself is DNS server for the controlled domain; be sure that one is available via DNS;

•user that is used to join Appliance into ADS is connected directly or through terminal service to ADS server; you should log this user off and re-join Appliance into ADS.

1.5.1.4My Appliance was joined into ADS. I see it at my Network Neighborhood but cannot connect to one. What's wrong?

When you can observe Appliance account on ADS server but you are not able to get access to its shares you should:

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