Chapter 6

Configuring Access to CIFS Shares

Assign access rights

About this chapter

This chapter describes how to assign users and groups access rights to CIFS shares (directories) using FilerView; see the System Administrator's Guide for instructions about using Windows NT Server Manager to assign access rights.

If you did not purchase a license for the CIFS protocol, continue with Chapter 7, "Configuring Clients to Access the Filer."

Scope of shares access

The rights you assign to a share apply to the entire share; for example, if you assign a user rights to a share named HOME, the user gains rights to the directory specified by the HOME share and to all subdirectories under the directory. When you assign rights, they are recorded in the share ACL.

Introducing the cifs share parameters

FilerView enables you to grant users and groups access to CIFS shares. The CIFS share parameters are described in the following table.


Parameter	Description
`access`	Specifies that an access entry is to be created.
`share`	Specifies the name of the share.
`user\|group`	Specifies that the `user\|group` name is a group.
`name`	Specifies the name of the user or group for which access to the share is granted.
`rights`	Specifies which rights the user or group have to the share. Rights are specified by three characters, rwx, which stand for read, write, and execute. A dash (-) in any position denies the user the right specified by the character it replaces. Examples: rwx grants read, write, and execute rights. r-- grants only the right to read files. rw- grants only the rights to read and write files. r-x grants only the rights to read and execute files.

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