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Preparing CIFS clients to access the storage system
If you are in an Active Directory domain, you must ensure that DNS is correctly configured to ensure CIFS client access.
Once setup is complete, the storage system establishes CIFS client connectivity by automatically registering with the master browser. If cross-subnet browsing is configured correctly, the storage system is now visible to all CIFS clients. For more information about cross-subnet browsing, see Microsoft networking documentation.
Note:
Although CIFS visibility has been established, you need to configure shares with CIFS access permissions before any storage system data can become accessible to CIFS clients. For information about how to make a test share available to CIFS clients, see the
Data ONTAP
7-Mode
File Access and Protocols Management Guide
.
You will also need to provide information to Windows client users about how to access data on the storage system for their particular Windows version.
