Administrator Guide

NOTE: A folder name must be less than 100 characters long and cannot contain the following characters: >, ", \,
|, ?, and *
● To specify an existing folder, type the path to the folder in the Initial path field.
● To browse for an existing folder:
Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box opens and displays the top-level folders for the NAS volume.
Locate and select the folder, and then 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 browse existing directories and create a new folder:
Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box opens 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
opens. In the Folder Name field, 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.
i. From the Folder template drop-down list, select the form that the user’s folders should take:
● Select /Domain/User if you want the user’s folders to take the form initial_path / domain / user_name.
● Select /User if you want the user’s folders to take the form initial_path / user_name.
j. (Optional) Configure the remaining SMB home shares attributes as needed. These options are described in the online
help.
● To prevent clients accessing the share from being able to view the names of folders and files in the share to which
they do not have access, click the Content tab and select the Access Based Enumeration checkbox.
● To enable virus scanning for SMB home shares, click the Antivirus Scanners tab and select the Virus Scan
checkbox.
● To exempt directories from antivirus scanning, select the Folders Filtering Enabled checkbox and specify the
directories in the Directories excluded from scan list.
● To exempt file extensions from antivirus scanning, select the File Extension Filtering Enabled checkbox and
specify the extensions in the Extensions excluded from scan list.
● To deny access to files larger than the specified antivirus scanning file size threshold, select the Deny un-scanned
large files checkbox.
● To change the maximum size of files that are included in antivirus scanning, type a size in the Virus scan file size
threshold field in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB).
k. Click OK.
If you did not enable automatic folder creation, perform steps 2 and 3.
2. Give ownership of the SMB home shares to the account that will create the folders (either using a user-created script or
manually) for each user’s home share.
a. Using Windows Explorer, connect to the SMB home share initial path.
b. In the security setting of the SMB share, click Advanced and change the owner to Domain Admins, a specific domain
administrator, or a FluidFS cluster administrator account.
c. Disconnect from the SMB home share and reconnect to it as the account that has ownership of it.
3. Using Windows Explorer, for each user that you want to be given a home share, create a folder for them that conforms to
the folder template you selected previously.
Changing the Owner of an SMB Share
When an SMB share is created, the owner of the SMB share must be changed before setting any access control lists (ACLs)
or share-level permissions (SLP), or attempting to access the SMB share. The following methods can be used to initially change
the owner of an SMB share:
● Use an Active Directory domain account that has its primary group set as the Domain Admins group.
● Use the FluidFS cluster Administrator account (used if not joined to Active Directory or Domain Admin credentials are not
available).
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