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When a user logs on to Windows, can active directory be used to map a
drive to the IFS (via NetServer) just like mapping a drive to a Windows
file server?

I assume so. I've never used AD, so I don't know what it's capabilties are. We use a FreeBSD server running Samba as a PDC, and it's able to tell the PC to map a drive to NetServer.


If it can, do iSeries userids/passwords have to match the users Windows userid/password? (my guess is yes)

There's a way to set up single sign on (kerberos or something) so that the userid/password don't have to match. I haven't done it, mind you, and I don't know the details. But I've been assured that it's possible.

In my shop, we do keep the userid, password, UID and GID identical on all of our systems. Our users would have conniptions if they had to memory 10 different passwords!


And how is authority controlled? Do you have to tell both AD and OS/400 what the user has access to?

Yes, you have normal user profiles on both sides, you grant them access normally on each machine.

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