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Listing all currently available CIFS Shares
A NAS administrator can list the currently defined CIFS Shares. In a clustered
environment, only shares that are currently available on the current node are listed.
SMIT fastpath
The SMIT menu fastpath command to list the currently defined CIFS Shares is smit
cifs.
1. Select File shares
2. Select List all CIFS Shares
SMIT displays a list of the current CIFS Shares with names, paths, and
descriptions.
Creating a CIFS share
To allow Windows users to access files on the NAS Gateway 500, a NAS
administrator must define CIFS shares.
Note: When Remote Mirroring is enabled, you must disable the cluster to perform
To create a CIFS share:
SMIT fastpath
The SMIT menu fastpath command to define CIFS Shares is smit cifs.
1. Select File Shares.
2. Select Add a CIFS Share.
3. Fill in the required fields.
The commonly used fields in the dialog are:
Share (network) Name
Path
Description
The remaining fields can be left at the default settings. Refer to the IBM
TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 CIFS File Serving Guide for details.
this operation. Then create the CIFS share, re-enable the cluster, and wait
for the cluster to resynchronize.
The name of the CIFS share. The share name does
not have to be the same as the directory, but it
must be unique across all CIFS shares on the NAS
Gateway 500. Clients access the share with the
Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path
\\servername\sharename (where servername is the
NetBIOS name of the server hosting the share and
sharename is the share name you specify).
Specifies the NAS Gateway 500 filesystem path to
share. This path must already exist and it must
reside on a NAS volume. For example, if you have
a volume called HRVol with a subdirectory
Pensions you want to share, the path would be
/Vols/HRVol/Pensions (all NAS volumes are
mounted under the directory /Vols).
Text comment that appears next to the share name
in the CIFS server's share list and in the Windows
network browser.
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