Administrator Guide

Conguring SMB Shares
View, add, modify, and delete SMB shares.
View All SMB Shares on the FluidFS Cluster
View all current SMB shares for the FluidFS cluster.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab, select SMB Shares. The SMB shares are displayed in the right pane.
View SMB Shares on a NAS Volume
View the current SMB shares for a NAS volume.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab, expand NAS Volumes and select a NAS volume.
3. In the right pane, click the SMB Shares tab. The SMB shares are displayed.
Add an SMB Share
Create an SMB share to share a directory in a NAS volume using the SMB protocol. When an SMB share is added, default values are
applied for some settings. To change the defaults, you must modify the SMB share.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab, select SMB Shares.
3. In the right pane, click Create SMB share. The Select NAS Volume dialog box appears.
4. Select a NAS volume on which to create an SMB share and click OK. The Create SMB share dialog box appears.
5. In the Share Name eld, type a name for the SMB share.
6. In the Path eld, specify the directory that you want to share:
NOTE: A share path must be less than 512 characters long. Fewer characters are accepted if the name is entered in
Unicode, because Unicode characters take up a variable amount of bytes, depending on the specic character.
• To share the root of the NAS volume, leave the Path eld set to the default value of /.
• To enter an existing directory to share, type the path to the directory in the Path eld.
• To browse to an existing directory to share:
Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box appears and displays the top-level folders for the NAS volume. Locate the
folder to share, select the folder, and click OK.
– To drill down to a particular folder and view the subfolders, double-click the folder name.
– To view the parent folders of a particular folder, click Up.
• To enter a new directory to share, type the path to the directory to create in the Path eld and select the Create Folder If It
Does Not Exist check box.
• To browse existing directories and create a new directory to share:
Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box appears and displays the top-level folders for the NAS volume. Navigate
to the folder in which to create the new folder and click Create Folder. The Create Folder dialog box appears. In the Folder
Name eld, type a name for the folder, then click OK to close the Create Folder dialog box. Select the new folder and click
OK.
– To drill down to a particular folder and view the subfolders, double-click the folder name.
– To view the parent folders of a particular folder, click Up.
7. (Optional) Congure the remaining SMB share attributes as needed. These options are described in the online help.
• Type descriptive text for the benet of administrators in the Notes eld. This text is not displayed to SMB clients.
• To prevent clients accessing the share from being able to view the names of folders and les in the share to which they do
not have access, select the Access Based Enumeration check box.
8. Click OK.
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FluidFS NAS Volumes, Shares, and Exports