topic Re: PowerShell windows share creation automation in General Discussion

PowerShell windows share creation automation

georgel — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 19:03:16 GMT

Folks,

Please, could anyone share an example PowerShell command syntax or script snip on how to automate creating CIFS shares for CDOT? We need to migrate 2008 user's shares to new FAS, but the problem we have more than a 1000 old users that still have hidden user shares and must be preserved, (dont' ask, its a requirement :)). Data migration is done via robocopy and we have .csv with users name folder path on netapp and appropriate usershare$. It would nice to automate the process when the script reads the input file line by line and creates a corresponding share$ with everyone access permission for it. I would greatly appreciate for the example.

Thanks a lot in advance.

PS. Yes, we know about netapp home share feature, but right now its a matter of exact data migration, same way as it was, so need those shares on netapp.

PS2. If someone has a script based on "cifs share create -vserver" command and an example of how to apply to SVM, this would work too. Thanks!

Re: PowerShell windows share creation automation

georgel — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:00:01 GMT

Hi Folks,

to update my post, we "cooked" a ps script using Netapp Powershell kit for each share with this syntax:

Add-NcCifsShare -Name UserShare$ -path '/vol_name/qtree_name/users/Userpath' -ShareProperties @("browsable","oplocks","show_previous_versions")

Some pre-massaging in Excel for columns and path modification and Notepadd++ to remove extra tabs and spaces were required. But it did the job reasonably quick and for each runaway, an error will point to the line number in the script, so its easy to track down a specific path to fix. Hope it will help someone else as well. Cheers!

Re: PowerShell windows share creation automation

irene_david — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:45:25 GMT

Hi, How can I see the original solution? I cant seem to open the link.

Re: PowerShell windows share creation automation

Akromat_Eichler — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:15:15 GMT

Hello,

apparently you have to answer your own questions here. What a pity. 😥