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Configuring the default user

You can configure a default user to use if all other mapping attempts fail for a user, or if you do not want to map individual users between UNIX and Windows. Alternatively, if you want authentication of non-mapped users to fail, you should not configure a default user.

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For CIFS authentication, if you do not want to map each Windows user to an individual UNIX user, you can instead specify a default UNIX user.

For NFS authentication, if you do not want to map each UNIX user to an individual Windows user, you can instead specify a default Windows user.

Perform one of the following actions:
If you want to...Enter the following command...
Configure the default UNIX uservserver cifs options modify -default-unix-user user_name
Configure the default Windows uservserver nfs modify -default-win-user user_name