topic Re: Migrating CIF shares to a new location in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-CIF-shares-to-a-new-location/m-p/58340#M13704 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Assuming no local groups in which case, you've got much bigger problems which can get into later if needed, there are a few ways to do this.&nbsp; But first, if these are home directory shares, I'd strongly suggest looking into using the cifs.homedir option which can make this sort of thing much cleaner.&nbsp; I've seen customers implement hundreds of hidden shares that were just homedirs for users and most of the time that can be avoided.</P><P></P><P>If that's not applicable here, then you can do this.&nbsp; I won't say it's officially blessed by NGS, but it works pretty darn well in my experience here.&nbsp; You can copy the /etc/cifsconfig_shares.cfg file over to the new controller, then stop and restart the cifs service.&nbsp; Just in case, take a snapshot of vol0 so you can recover the old one if needed, but this has worked for me very well over the years.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:33:48 GMT adamfox 2010-08-25T19:33:48Z Migrating CIF shares to a new location https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-CIF-shares-to-a-new-location/m-p/58335#M13703 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Situation:&nbsp; I am retiring to 980 heads and have already mirrored the data to it's new location, I just don't want to have to recreate 80 shares on the new location.&nbsp; Is there an easy way to migrate this?&nbsp; Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:09:55 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-CIF-shares-to-a-new-location/m-p/58335#M13703 irobinson1 2025-06-05T07:09:55Z Re: Migrating CIF shares to a new location https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-CIF-shares-to-a-new-location/m-p/58340#M13704 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Assuming no local groups in which case, you've got much bigger problems which can get into later if needed, there are a few ways to do this.&nbsp; But first, if these are home directory shares, I'd strongly suggest looking into using the cifs.homedir option which can make this sort of thing much cleaner.&nbsp; I've seen customers implement hundreds of hidden shares that were just homedirs for users and most of the time that can be avoided.</P><P></P><P>If that's not applicable here, then you can do this.&nbsp; I won't say it's officially blessed by NGS, but it works pretty darn well in my experience here.&nbsp; You can copy the /etc/cifsconfig_shares.cfg file over to the new controller, then stop and restart the cifs service.&nbsp; Just in case, take a snapshot of vol0 so you can recover the old one if needed, but this has worked for me very well over the years.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:33:48 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-CIF-shares-to-a-new-location/m-p/58340#M13704 adamfox 2010-08-25T19:33:48Z