Shares window

You can use the Shares window to manage your shares and display information about them.

•	Command buttons

•	Shares list

•	Details area

Command buttons

Create Share

Opens the Create Share dialog box, which enables you to create a share.

Create Home Directory

Opens the Create Home Directory Share dialog box, which enables you to create a new home directory share.

Edit

Opens the settings dialog box, which enables you to modify the properties of a selected share.

Stop Sharing

Stops the selected object from being shared.

Refresh

Updates the information in the window.

Shares list

The shares list displays the name and path of each share.

Share Name

Displays the name of the share.

Path

Displays the complete path name of an existing folder, qtree, or volume that is shared. Path separators can be backward or forward slashes, although Data ONTAP displays them as forward slashes.

Home Directory

Displays the name of the home directory share.

Comment

Displays any description for the share.

Continuously Available Share

Displays whether the share is enabled for continuous availability.

Details area

The area below the shares list displays the share properties and the access rights for each share.

Properties

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Name

Displays the name of the share.

•	Oplocks status

Specifies if the share uses opportunistic locks (oplocks).

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Browsable

Specifies whether the share can be browsed by Windows clients.

•	Show Snapshot

Specifies whether Snapshot copies can be viewed by clients.

•	Continuously Available Share

Specifies whether the share is enabled or disabled for continuous availability.

•	Access-Based Enumeration

Specifies whether access-based enumeration (ABE) is enabled or disabled on the share.

Share access control

Displays the access rights of the domain users and groups and local users and groups for the share.

Related tasks

Creating a CIFS share

Stopping share access

Editing share settings