Preparing the vFiler unit for CIFS

Different methods of CIFS management

From the hosting storage system, you can use the vfiler run command format to issue cifs commands for vFiler units. From the vFiler units, 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 storage system

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 unit command line (by means of the vfiler context command; see Executing commands and setting options for a vFiler unit for more information) or from the hosting storage system (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 unit limit with CIFS

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

About local user accounts for vFiler units

From the hosting storage system, you can use the useradmin command to create local accounts for CIFS users of each vFiler unit. Each vFiler unit supports up to 96 local user accounts. The maximum number of vFiler unit user accounts per storage system is 96 times the maximum number of vFiler units for that storage system. (For information on the maximum number of vFiler units for a particular storage system, see Adjusting the vFiler unit limit.)