Displaying information about shares

Methods of displaying information about shares

You can display information about a specific share or all shares on the filer.

To display information about shares, do either of the following:

Using Server Manager to view information about shares

To display information about shares from Server Manager, follow these steps.

Step Action
1 Open Server Manager by choosing it from the Start menu.
2 From the Server Manager Computer menu, choose Select Domain.
Result
The Select Domain window opens.
3 In the Select Domain window, select the filer you want by typing its UNC name, for example, \\FILERNAME, in the Domain field, then clicking OK.
Result:
A Server Manager window for the filer appears.
4 Double-click the name of a filer.
Result
The Filer Properties window appears.

5 Click the Shares button.
Result
Information about each share on the filer appears, as shown below

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Using the cifs shares command to view information about shares

To display information about a share or shares that exist, enter the following command:

cifs shares sharename

where sharename is the specific name of the share about which you want information. If you want information about all shares, leave sharename blank.

Examples of displaying share information

The following command example displays the share information only for the share library created by the cifs shares -add command described in "Creating a share with the cifs shares command."

cifs shares library

The following command displays information about all shares:

cifs shares

The sample output is from cifs shares:

Name         Mount Point                       Description

----         -----------                       -----------

HOME         /vol/muffin/home                  Default Share

                        everyone / Full Control

                        techpubs{g} / Full Control

C$           /vol/muffin                       Remote Administration

                        everyone / Full Control

                        BUILTIN\Administrators / Full Control

openhome     /vol/muffin/writers_home          readable home dirs

             ... user limit=1200

             ... forcegroup=techpubs

                        everyone / --x

                        techpubs{g} / r-x

stock        /vol/muffin                       Not half-baked

             ... user limit=10

                        everyone / Full Control

flour        /vol/muffin/blueberry             Flour power

                        everyone / Full Control

sesame       /vol/bagels/ 

                        everyone / Full Control

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