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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 23, 2026

Independent management of CES NFS and SMB service

Customer is using CES SMB and NFS.
They are using Active Directory authentication.
Customer cannot stop CES SMB service independently as NFS requires SMB to authenticate users with Active Directory.
Error message: "Stop NFS first in order to stop SMB."
Request to allow CES SMB and NFS service to be independent.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Apr 23, 2026

    This is an important feature to allow upgrading samba without downtime for other CES services like NFS and S3, which shouldn't be necessary when they're not actively using AD/LDAP serverside.