Setting up CIFS

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Setting up CIFS

You can use System Manager to set up CIFS.

Before you begin

•	The CIFS license must be installed on your storage system.

•	While configuring CIFS in the Active Directory domain, you must ensure the following requirements are met.

•	DNS must be enabled and configured correctly.

•	The storage system must be able to talk to the domain controller using the fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

•	The time differences (clock skew) between the storage system time and the domain time must not be more than the skew time that is configured in Data ONTAP.

•	If CIFS is the only protocol configured on the Vserver, you must ensure the following requirements are met.

•	The root volume security style must be NTSF. By default, System Manager sets the security style as UNIX.

•	Superuser access must be set to Any for CIFS protocol.

Steps

1.	From the Home tab, double-click the appropriate storage system.

2.	Expand the Vservers hierarchy in the left navigation pane.

3.	In the navigation pane, select the Vserver and click Configuration > Protocols > CIFS.

4.	In the Configuration tab, click Setup.

5.	Specify the NetBIOS name and the Active Directory domain details in the CIFS Server Setup dialog box.

6.	Click Setup.

Related tasks

Creating a CIFS share

Editing the volume properties

Modifying export policy rules

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