cifs shares - configure and display CIFS shares information
cifs shares
cifs shares sharename
cifs shares -add sharename path
[ -comment description ]
[ -maxusers userlimit ]
[ -forcegroup groupname ]
cifs shares -change sharename
{ -comment description | -nocomment }
{ -maxusers userlimit | -nomaxusers }
{ -forcegroup groupname | -noforcegroup }
cifs shares -delete sharename
cifs shares displays one or more shares, edits a specified share, creates a share, or deletes a share.
Listing shares
To list all shares and their access control lists, use the command cifs shares with no arguments. To list a single share and its access control list, use the command cifs shares sharename where sharename name of the share.
toaster> cifs shares
Name Mount Point Description
---- ----------- -----------
HOME /vol/vol0/home Default Share
everyone / Full Control
C$ /vol/vol0 Remote Administration
BUILTIN\Administrators / Full Control
ENGR /vol/vol0/engr Engineering
DOMAIN\Engineering / Full Control
NEWS /vol/vol0/news News
DOMAIN\Guests / No Access
everyone / Read
toaster> cifs shares news
Name Mount Point Description
---- ----------- -----------
NEWS /vol/vol0/news News
DOMAIN\Guests / No Access
everyone / Read
Creating new shares
To create a new share, use the -add option:
cifs shares -add sharename path
[ -comment description ]
[ -maxusers userlimit ]
[ -forcegroup groupname ]
sharename name of the new share; clients use this name to access the share.
-comment description
description of the new share. CIFS clients see this description when browsing the filer's
shares. If the description includes spaces, it must be enclosed in double quotatation
marks. If you do not specify a description, the description is blank.
-maxusers userlimit
maximum number of simultaneous connections to the new share. userlimit must be a
positive integer. If you do not specify a number, the filer does not impose a limit on the
number of connections to the share.
-forcegroup groupname
name of the group to which files to be created in the share belong. The groupname
is the name of a group in the UNIX group database.
Deleting existing shares
To delete a share, use the -delete option:
cifs shares -delete sharename
sharename is the name of the share to be deleted. A share cannot be deleted if it is in use.
Changing the settings of existing shares
To change the settings of an existing share, use the -change option:
cifs shares -change sharename
{ -comment description | -nocomment } { -maxusers userlimit
| -nomaxusers } { -forcegroup groupname | -noforcegroup }
The settings of a share can be changed at any time, even if the share is in use.
sharename is the name of the existing share that is to be changed.
-comment description
changes the description of the share. For more information about the share description
setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.
-nocomment changes the description of the share to an empty string.
-maxusers userlimit
changes the user limit on the share. For more information about the user limit setting,
see the Creating new shares section, above.
-nomaxusers removes the user limit on the share.
-forcegroup groupname
changes the forcegroup setting. For more information about the forcegroup setting, see the
Creating new shares section, above.
-noforcegroup
specifies that files to be created in the share do not belong to a particular UNIX group.
That is, each file belongs to the same group as the owner of the file.
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