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na_cifs_shares - configure and display CIFS shares information

SYNOPSIS

cifs shares

cifs shares sharename

cifs shares -add sharename path
[ -f ]
[ -comment description ]
[ -maxusers userlimit ]
[ -forcegroup groupname ]
[ -nosymlink_strict_security ]
[ -widelink ]
[ -umask mask ]
[ -novscan ]
[ -novscanread ]
[ -no_caching | -auto_document_caching -auto_program_caching ]

cifs shares -change sharename
{ -comment description | -nocomment } { -maxusers userlimit | -nomaxusers } { -forcegroup groupname | -noforcegroup } { -nosymlink_strict_security | -symlink_strict_security }
{ -widelink | -nowidelink }
{ -umask mask | -noumask }
{ -novscan | -vscan }
{ -novscanread | -vscanread }
{ -no_caching | -manual_caching
-auto_document_caching | -auto_program_caching }

cifs shares -delete [ -f ] sharename

cifs shares -t

DESCRIPTION

cifs shares displays one or more shares, edits a specified share, creates a share, deletes a share, or displays a total summary of the shares.

Listing shares
To list all shares and their access control lists, use the command cifs shares with no arguments. To list a single share and its access control list, use the command cifs shares sharename where sharename name of the share.

toaster> cifs shares 

  Name              Mount Point             Description
  ----              -----------             -----------
  HOME              /vol/vol0/home          Default Share
                            everyone / Full Control
  C$                /vol/vol0               Remote Administration
                            BUILTIN\Administrators / Full Control
  ENGR              /vol/vol0/engr          Engineering
                            DOMAIN\Engineering / Full Control
  NEWS              /vol/vol0/news          News
                            DOMAIN\Guests / No Access
                            everyone / Read

toaster> cifs shares news 

  Name              Mount Point             Description
  ----              -----------             -----------
  NEWS              /vol/vol0/news          News
                            DOMAIN\Guests / No Access
                            everyone / Read

Creating new shares
To create a new share, use the -add option:

cifs shares -add sharename path
[ -f ]
[ -comment description ]
[ -maxusers userlimit ]
[ -forcegroup groupname ]
[ -nosymlink_strict_security ] [ -widelink ]
[ -umask mask ]
[ -novscan ]
[ -novscanread ]
[ -no_caching | -auto_document_caching -auto_program_caching ]

sharename name of the new share; clients use this name to access the share.

path
full path name of the directory on the filer that corresponds to the root of the new share.

-f
Suppress confirmation dialogs, if any.

-comment description
description of the new share. CIFS clients see this description when browsing the filer's shares. If the description includes spaces, it must be enclosed in double quotatation marks. If you do not specify a description, the description is blank.

-maxusers userlimit
maximum number of simultaneous connections to the new share. userlimit must be a positive integer. If you do not specify a number, the filer does not impose a limit on the number of connections to the share.

-forcegroup groupname
name of the group to which files to be created in the share belong. The groupname is the name of a group in the UNIX group database.

-nosymlink_strict_security
allow clients to follow symbolic links to destinations on this filer but outside of the current share. Do not check that the client is authenticated to the symbolic link's destination.

-widelink
allow clients to follow absolute symbolic links outside of this share, subject to NT security. This feature requires an entry in the /etc/symlink.translations file and it requires that the client supports Microsoft's Distributed File System (Dfs).

-umask mask set
file mode creation mask for shares in qtrees with Unix or mixed security styles. The mask is an octal value which determines the initial permissions setting of a newly created file.

-novscan
do not perform a virus scan when clients open files on this share.

-novscanread
do not perform a virus scan when clients open files on this share for read access.

-no_caching disallow
Windows clients from caching any files on this share.

-auto_document_caching
allow Windows clients to cache user documents on this share. The actual caching behavior depends upon the Windows client.

-auto_program_caching
allow Windows clients to cache programs on this share. The actual caching behavior depends upon the Windows client.

Deleting existing shares
To delete a share, use the -delete option: 

  cifs shares -delete sharename

sharename is the name of the share to be deleted. A share cannot be deleted if it is in use unless the -f option is used, in which case all current opens of the share are immediately forced closed first.

Changing the settings of existing shares
To change the settings of an existing share, use the -change option:

cifs shares -change sharename
{ -comment description | -nocomment } { -maxusers userlimit | -nomaxusers } { -forcegroup groupname | -noforcegroup } { -nosymlink_strict_security | -symlink_strict_security }
{ -widelink | -nowidelink } { -umask mask | -noumask } { -novscan | -vscan }
{ -novscanread | -vscanread } { -no_caching | -manual_caching

-auto_document_caching
| -auto_program_caching }

The settings of a share can be changed at any time, even if the share is in use.

sharename is the name of the existing share that is to be changed.

-comment description
changes the description of the share. For more information about the share description setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-nocomment
changes the description of the share to an empty string.

-maxusers userlimit
changes the user limit on the share. For more information about the user limit setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-nomaxusers removes the user limit on the share.

-forcegroup groupname
changes the forcegroup setting. For more information about the forcegroup setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-noforcegroup
specifies that files to be created in the share do not belong to a particular UNIX group. That is, each file belongs to the same group as the owner of the file.

-nosymlink_strict_security
disables the symlink_strict_security setting. For more information about the symlink_strict_security setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-symlink_strict_security
enables the symlink_strict_security setting for this share.

-widelink
changes the widelink setting. For more information about the widelink setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-nowidelink disables
the widelink setting for this share.

-umask mask changes the umask setting.
For more information about the umask setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-noumask
resets the umask value to 0.

-novscan
changes the share's virus scan setting. For more information about the vscan setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-vscan
enables virus scanning for this share.

-novscanread
changes the virus scan setting on this share for read access. For more information about the novscanread setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.

-vscanread
specifies that files opened on this share for read access should be scanned for viruses.

-no_caching disallow
Windows clients from caching any files on this share.

-manual_caching
allow users on Windows clients to manually select files to be cached.

-auto_document_caching
allow Windows clients to cache user documents on this share. The actual caching behavior depends upon the Windows client.

-auto_program_caching
allow Windows clients to cache programs on this share. The actual caching behavior depends upon the Windows client.

CIFS Home Directories
It is possible for some share settings to be applied to users' CIFS home directories. The share setting will apply to all user home directories. It is not possible to specify per user settings. Similarly, if the filer has multiple CIFS homedir paths, it is not possible to specify a setting that is per CIFS homedir path. To apply a share setting to all CIFS home directories use the share name cifs.homedir when entering a command. For example, to disable virus scanning for all CIFS access to home directories, a sysadmin would use the command:

filer> cifs shares -change CIFS.HOMEDIR -novscan

To display the settings on CIFS home directories use the command:

filer> cifs shares CIFS.HOMEDIR

The following share settings can be applied to CIFS home directories:

-widelink

-nowidelink

-symlink_strict_security

-nosymlink_strict_security

-vscan

-novscan

-vscanread

-novscanread

-umask

-noumask

-no_caching

-manual_caching

-auto_document_caching

-auto_program_caching

Total Summary for shares
To display the summary for all the shares use the -t option

cifs shares -t

SEE ALSO

na_cifs_access(1)

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