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Configuring Front-End Services
Configuring CIFS
11-12 CLI Storage-Management Guide
Configuring CIFS
From gbl mode, use the cifs command to instantiate CIFS service for a global server:
cifs fqdn
where fqdn (1-128 characters) is the fully-qualified domain name for the global
server (for example, “myserver.organization.org”). If this CIFS service runs in an
Active Directory forest and/or uses Kerberos to authenticate clients, this must be
in a domain in the Active-Directory forest (configured in “Adding an
Active-Directory Forest (Kerberos)” on page 3-10).
The CLI prompts for confirmation before creating the service; enter yes to proceed.
(You can disable all such create-confirmation prompts with the
terminal expert
command.) This places you in gbl-cifs mode, from which you can share various
namespace volumes.
For example, the following command sequence offers CIFS service at
ac1.medarch.org:
bstnA6k(gbl)# cifs ac1.medarch.org
This will create a new CIFS service.
Create CIFS service 'ac1.medarch.org'? [yes/no] yes
bstnA6k(gbl-cifs[ac1.medarch.org])# ...
From gbl-cifs mode, you must export at least one namespace volume and then enable
the CIFS service, as described in the following subsections.
Sharing a Namespace Volume
If a namespace volume is configured for CIFS, you can offer it as a share through the
CIFS-service configuration. You can offer as many CIFS shares as desired from a
given namespace; each CIFS service supports a single namespace.