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Turning scanning on or off for shares

Why you turn virus scanning off for a specified share  Top

You might want to turn virus scanning off for files in a share if it is used only by trusted users, the files are restricted to read-only mode, or speed of access is more important than safety. Virus scanning for a share is turned on by default.

How to turn virus scanning off for shares  Top

To turn virus scanning off for files in a specified share, complete the following step.

Step

Action
1

Enter the following command:

cifs shares -change share_name -novscan

share_name is the name of the share for which you want to turn off virus scanning.

Result

The application does not perform a virus scan when clients open files on this share. The setting is persistent after reboot.

How to turn virus scanning on for shares  Top

To turn virus scanning on for files in a specified share, complete the following step.

Step

Action
1

Enter the following command:

cifs shares -change share_name -vscan

share_name is the name of the share for which you want to turn on virus scanning.

Result

The application does a virus scan when clients open files on this share. The setting is persistent after reboot.

Note
You can set these share attributes for all CIFS user home directories by using cifs.homedir as the share name, for example, cifs shares -change cifs.homedir -novscan

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