Chapter 7

File Sharing Between NFS and CIFS

About this chapter  

This chapter describes how Data ONTAP enables NFS and CIFS clients to share files and how you can optimize Data ONTAP to share files quickly and without errors.

Topics in this chapter  

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Understanding NFS and CIFS file naming
• Understanding file locking between protocols
• Understanding read-only bits
• Controlling CIFS access to symbolic links
• Optimizing NFS directory access for CIFS clients
• Preventing CIFS clients from creating uppercase file names
• Accessing CIFS files from NFS clients
• Installing SecureShare Access
• Changing UNIX permissions and DOS attributes from Windows

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