Joining Access Appliance to Active Directory (AD)

To join Access Appliance to Active Directory (AD)

To stop the CIFS server, enter the following command.
```
CIFS> server stop
```
Ensure that AD is configured.
See Configuring AD server settings.
To set the CIFS security mode, enter the following command:
```
CIFS> set security ads
```
The other CIFS security mode is user for local users. For authenticating to Active Directory, use the ads CIFS security mode.
To start the CIFS server, enter the following command:
```
CIFS> server start
```