Configuring the filer

Description

This procedure describes how to configure your filer whether or not you use DHCP. Complete this procedure after you install your new filer. After your configure your filer, it is visible on your network and available for access by users from their client computers.

Note: If you are installing clustered filers, you must complete this procedure for each filer in the cluster.

Prerequisites

Before you start this procedure, you must

Install the filer hardware and the serial console according to the instructions in your hardware guide if you are not using DHCP
Complete steps 1 through 3 of the "The configuration process"

Steps

Complete these steps to configure a filer.


Step	Action
1	Turn on the filer's power switch to begin the configuration process. The first time the filer boots If you followed the steps in "Using DHCP with an F700 Series filer," the filer obtains an IP address for the e0 interface. It runs the `setup` command. Note: If your filer is not in the F700 series, or if you decided not to use DHCP to configure the F700 series filer's onboard interface, you must attach a serial console to the filer so that you can interact with the `setup` command.
2	Enter the information from the worksheets in Appendix B, "Worksheets,." The `setup` program prompts you to enter the configuration information from the worksheets in the order that the worksheets are numbered.

Results

After you finish configuring the filer, it is on-line. The following directories exist on the filer:

/vol/vol0
/vol/vol0/home

Note: /vol is not a directory--it is a special virtual root path under which the filer mounts its volumes. You cannot mount /vol to view all the volumes on the filer; you must mount each filer volume separately.

If you purchased a license for the NFS protocol, /vol/vol0 is exported to the administration host for root access; /vol0/home is exported to the administration host for root access and to all clients for general access.

If you purchased a license for the CIFS protocol, /vol/vol0 is shared as C$; only the system administrator with the root password has read and write access to the C$ share. The /vol/vol0/home directory is shared as HOME without access granted to anyone.

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File: filer2.htm
Last updated: 02/25/99 17:35:01