Accessing A Cifs Share - Dell EqualLogic FS7500 Installation And Setup

EqualLogic FS7500 Installation and Setup

Accessing a CIFS Share

For a user to have access to a CIFS share, the following conditions must be met:
• The user must be a valid user and provide a valid password (local or remote authentication)
• The group administrator must set the CIFS administrator password
• An administrator must log in to the share using the CIFS administrator account (CIFSstorage\administrator)
and password and use the normal Windows operating system process to assign the user write permission to
the share
If the last two conditions are not met, a user can access the CIFS share but cannot write to it.
To access a CIFS share from a Windows system, follow these steps:
1. Click
Start > Run
2. Specify the NAS Service IP address in the
3. Right-click the share and select
4. In the Map Network Drive dialog box:
Figure 52: Create NAS File System – Summary
.
Open
Map Network Drive
field and click .
OK
.
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