Chapter 3

File Access Using CIFS

About this chapter  

This chapter describes how to prepare your filer for delivering file service to CIFS users.

Topics in this chapter  

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Filer management through Windows administrative tools
• Displaying and changing the description of the filer
• Creating NetBIOS aliases for the filer
• Disabling NetBIOS over TCP
• How to specify a filer's Windows name
• How to change a filer's computer account password
• How CIFS users obtain UNIX credentials
• Sharing directories on the filer
• Displaying and changing share properties
• Deleting a share
• CIFS limitations
• Understanding authentication issues
• Using null sessions to access filer storage in non-Kerberos environments
• Understanding local user accounts
• Creating local groups on the filer
• Understanding home directories on the filer
• How Data ONTAP matches a directory with a user
• Setting up user home directories
• Accessing home directories
• Specifying support for wide symbolic links in home directories
• How to stop offering home shares
• How share-level access control lists work
• Specifying how group IDs work with share-level ACLs
• Changing and displaying a share-level ACL
• Changing and displaying file-level ACLs
• Understanding the SID-to-name map cache
• Understanding file screening
• Enabling and disabling file screening
• Managing file policies
• Managing file screening servers
• Sending a message to all users on a filer
• Understanding CIFS auditing
• Understanding oplocks
• Managing oplocks
• Displaying CIFS session information
• Timing out idle sessions
• Disabling CIFS service
• Restarting CIFS service
• Reconfiguring CIFS for the filer
• Selecting domain controllers

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