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Specifying shares for scanning

Turning scanning on or off for read-only access for shares

Why you turn virus scanning off for read-only access for shares  Top

You might want to turn virus scanning off in a share for users who are opening files for read-only access to increase the speed of accessing the files. The default state of a share is for virus scanning to be turned on.

How to turn virus scanning off for shares  Top

To turn virus scanning off for read-only access to files in a specified share, complete the following step.

Step

Action

1

Enter the following command:

cifs shares -change share_name -novscanread

share_name is the name of the share for which you want to turn off virus scanning.

Result

The virus-scanning application does not perform a virus scan when clients open files on this share for read access. The setting is persistent after reboot.

How to turn virus scanning on for shares  Top

To turn virus scanning on for read-only access for files in a specified share, complete the following step.

Step

Action

1

Enter the following command:

cifs shares -change share_name -vscanread

share_name is the name of the share for which you want to turn on virus scanning.

Result

The virus-scanning application does a virus scan when clients open files on this share for read access. The setting is persistent after reboot.

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