Installation manual

Configuring Front-End Services
Configuring CIFS
CLI Storage-Management Guide 11-15
Exporting a Filer Subshare (and Using its ACL)
This section only applies to managed volumes. Skip all of the “subshare” sections if
you are sharing a direct volume.
The CIFS service accesses each back-end share through its root, whether or not you
export a directory below the root of the volume. For example, suppose you export
“/rcrds/2005” as a subshare of the above “/rcrds” share. When a client accesses that
subshare, the CIFS service goes through the top-level share at the back-end filer (for
example, “\\fs4\prescriptions”) and drops down to the /2005 directory. This bypasses
any share-level ACL that the filer may have for its own version of the /2005 subshare.
You can configure the CIFS service to pass CIFS clients through to the same
subshares, thus ensuring that they use the correct share-level ACL:
Filer fs4
d:\expo
rts
volume /rcrds
prescriptions
ACL1
Y2005
Filer fs4
d:\expo
rts
volume /rcrds
prescriptions
ACL1
Y2005
ACL3
Y2005