Please some one guide me how to authenticate ldapusers in cifs. Normal alfresco users are able to authenticate in cifs share. i am working on Alfresco-4.2.d. Please help .
LDAP authentication is not supported by Alfresco via the CIFS protocol. You can only authenticate via CIFS with Alfresco NTLM, Passthru, or Kerberos. If you're not authenticating against a Windows domain, then Passthru is probably not an option.
The Alfresco documentation provides details for configuring all of the CIFS-enabled authentication subsystems: