Preparing the vfiler for CIFS

Different methods of CIFS management

From the hosting filer, you can use the vfiler run command format to issue cifs commands for vfilers. From the vfilers, you use User Manager or Server Manager to manage user accounts and shares. The cifs command is not available through rsh.

Tasks that can be performed only on the hosting filer

Server Manager does not perform all the functions of the following cifs shares -add and cifs shares -change commands. You can execute these commands only from the vfiler command line (by means of the vfiler context command; see Executing commands and setting options for vfilers for more information) or from the hosting filer (by means of the vfiler run command):

cifs shares -add -forcegroup group_name
cifs shares -add share_name pathname -nosymlink_strict_security
cifs shares -add -widelink
cifs shares -add -novscan
cifs shares -add -novscanread
cifs shares -change share_name { -forcegroup group_name | -noforcegroup }
cifs shares -change share_name { -symlink_strict_security | -nosymlink_strict_security }
cifs shares -change share_name { -widelink | -nowidelink }
cifs shares -change share_name { -vscan | -novscan }
cifs shares -change share_name { -vscanread | -novscanread }

No per-vfiler limit with CIFS

Data ONTAP does not limit the number of users, shares, open files, and locked files on a per-vfiler basis.

About local user accounts for vfilers

From the hosting filer, you can use the useradmin command to create local accounts for CIFS users of each vfiler. Each vfiler supports up to 96 local user accounts.