Configure the CIFS connection criteria

Step 2: Configure the Windows DNS Server for the CIFS SetupHave your customer navigate to their Windows Server DNS configuration.Configure the CIFS A Record criteria

Select New Host (A or AAAA) to create an A record.

Enter in a host name. Here I used student1 and entered in the SmartConnect Service IP. Please use SSIP instead of VIP when discussing this with customers and partners as this is the correct terminology. Click the Add Host button to save this new record.

A confirmation dialog appears. Click the OK button to clear the confirmation dialog. Click the Done button to clear the create a record dialog.

As you can see above, the new A record has been registered into DNS. Next we need to create the Delegation Record. Configure the CIFS NS record criteria

Right click in the shite space and select New Delegation and the New Delegation Wizard appears. Click the Next> button and enter CIFS in the Delegated Domain: text box as shown below.

Click the Next> button to continue the process. In the Name Server dialog type in the CIFS delegation. You see the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) appear.

Click the Add button to Add the fully qualified A record by its FQDN.

Click the Resolve to resolve the SmartConnect Service IP address back to the cluster.

You may see an unknown error appear. You may continue. Once the IP resolves click the Next> button. Click the Finish button to complete the NS Delegation Record. When you click the CIFS record you should see something like the next screen.

And by double clicking the record the following screen appears.

Now you are ready to perform the big test, to see if the delegation configuration worked. When you perform the nslookup for cifs.lab1.training.isilon.com you see the following:

One can also perform the reverse nslookup on the IP address to look at name resolution.