Changing or viewing the filer's description

When to change or view a filer's description

The description of a filer appears next to its name wherever a machine's description comments appear. Initially, the filer has no description. You might want to change the description to something more informative so that you can distinguish filers from each other. You might want to view the description of a filer to find out, for example, what a particular filer does or who is in charge of it.

Changing a filer's description from Server Manager

To change the description of a filer 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.
4 Double-click a filer name.
Result
The Filer Properties window appears.

5 Type a new description of the filer in the Description field.
6 Click OK.
Result
The new description goes into effect.

Viewing a filer's description from the filer command line

To view the description of a filer, enter the following command:

cifs comment

Changing a filer's description from the filer command line

To change the description of a filer, enter the following command:

cifs comment "description"

where description is its description, which must be enclosed in quotation marks. The description must be no longer than 48 characters.

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Last updated: 02/24/99 12:16:32