Displaying CIFS session information

Types of session information

You can display the following types of session information:

A summary of session information, which includes filer information and the number of open shares and files opened by each connected user.
Share and file information about one connected user or all connected users, which includes
- The names of shares opened by a specified connected user or all connected users
- The access levels of opened files
Security information about a specified connected user or all connected users, which includes the UNIX UID and a list of UNIX groups and Windows groups to which the user belongs.
Note
The number of open shares shown in the session information includes the hidden IPC$ share.

Different ways to specify a user

To display session information about a connected user, you can specify the user by the user name or the IP address of the workstation. In addition, if the user is connected to the filer from a pre-Windows 2000 client, you can specify the name of the workstation.

Clients sometimes connect with an unauthenticated "null" session. Such sessions are sometimes used by clients to enumerate shares. If a client has only the null session connected to the filer, you will see the following status message:

User (or PC) not logged in

Displaying a summary of session information

To display a summary of session information, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: cifs sessions

Displaying share and file information about one or all connected users

To display share and file information about connected users, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	If you want to display...	Then...
	Information about one connected user	Go to Step 2.
	Information about all connected users	Go to Step 3.
2	Enter the following command: cifs sessions user_name \| IP_address \| workstation_name
3	Enter the following command: cifs sessions *

Displaying user security information

To display security information about connected users, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	If you want to display...	Then...
	Information about one connected user	Go to Step 2.
	Information about all connected users	Go to Step 3.
2	Enter the following command: cifs sessions -s user_name \| IP_address \| workstation_name
3	Enter the following command: cifs sessions -s