Hi,  Welcome to the EMC Support Forums.  To Join a CIFS server to a Domain, you need the right to join a computer in that OU where you are joining the CIFS server. So, if your account can join a computer to the domain, that must be sufficient to join the CIFS server to the AD.  By default, once a CIFS server is joined to the AD, the domain administrators group is added as a local administrators of that CIFS server - you can use the following CIFS parameter on the data mover which will add the user account that was used to add the CIFS server to the AD as a local admin on the CIFS server - you may check the Parameter guide for more details.  param cifs djAddAdminToLg 1  If you are still getting error in joining the CIFS server to the AD, please the server_log to find out the reason or details of the failure. Please ensure, that DNS and NTP is properly configured on the data mover. The Time on the data mover and the AD must be in sync.  Hope this helps, please feel free to revert back, Sandip
Hello, My question is about the user rights and privileges in the a Windows 2003 domain that allow joining CIFS server to the domain, the current user I am using can join a computer to the domain, but not a CIFS server. What are the user's privileges that allow joining CIFS server to an ou in a domain. Thanks in advance
Join CIFS server to a domain