CIFS (Common Internet File System) is a file-sharing protocol based on the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol widely in use by personal computers and workstations running a wide variety of operating systems. CIFS provides an open, cross-platform mechanism for client systems, including Windows systems, to request file and print services from server systems over a network.
This chapter describes how to manage the CIFS file protocol and users.
You can do some operations that affect CIFS administration only from the filer command line or FilerView. These are
This chapter discusses the topics listed in the following table.
| Read... | To learn about... |
|---|---|
| "CIFS limitations" | Describes CIFS limitations when using the ACL editor, User Manager, and Server Manager. |
| "Limits on CIFS open files, sessions, and shares" | CIFS limits on a filer. |
| "Limits for F700 and series filers" | How to change or examine descriptive information about a filer. |
| "Adding CIFS users to the filer" | How to add users to a filer from Windows NT and the filer command line. |
| "Adding local groups to the filer" | How to use User Manager to add local groups to the filer. |
| "Using CIFS commands with a remote shell program" | How to use a remote shell to automate CIFS management. |
| "Enabling guest and generic access" | How to give access to users who do not have an account on the filer. |
| "Displaying a filer's shares" | How to display information about the shared directories on a filer. |
| "Creating and changing a share" | How to create a share from Windows NT and the filer and change the value of its parameters. |
| "Displaying information about shares" | How to get information about shares from Windows NT and the filer. |
| "Deleting a share" | How to delete shares from Windows NT and the filer. |
| "Creating a home share for each user" | How to create home shares from Windows NT and the filer. |
| "Assigning and changing access rights" | How to define user or group access rights to a share. |
| "Displaying access rights to an NTFS file" | How to show who has rights to an NTFS file on the filer. |
| "Changing UNIX permissions and DOS attributes from Windows" | How to use SecureShareTM Access to view and change UNIX permissions and DOS attributes. |
| "Sending a message to all users on a filer" | How to send a message in an alert box to all users on a filer. |
| "Event auditing" | How to monitor access to a file by a specified user. |
| "Using oplocks" | How to set and remove opportunistic locking from the filer as a whole. |
| "Displaying CIFS statistics" | How to display CIFS information. |
| "Displaying CIFS session information" | How to display information from the filer command line about who is logged in to CIFS. |
| "Stopping and restarting CIFS sessions" | How to stop and start CIFS service from the filer command line. |
| "Reconfiguring the filer for CIFS" | How to run the cifs setup program to reconfigure CIFS on the filer |
If you change the name of a volume that contains at least one share, whether through Windows NT or the vol rename command, the filer automatically offers the share to users in the renamed volume at the next reboot. The new volume name is reflected in the cifs shares command.
This chapter does not discuss procedures that take place on the clients and it does not describe how a machine joins a workgroup or domain. For information about these topics, refer to the manuals for your client operating systems or books about PC networking.
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