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access mount path from windows and linux

adakatsu — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:00:59 GMT

I expect to access NetApp storage volumes from Windows and Linux.
Therefore, for the created Volume "Vol1"
I want to access "/Vol1" from Windows and "/mnt/Vol1" from Linux.
Would you please teach me how to do that?

I thought about setting Junction-path, unmounted Vol1, and then
When I try to change Junction-path from Vol1 to /mnt/Vol1, I get the following error:
"Error: command failed: Failed to create or determine if a junction exists within volume" svm_root ".
Error occurred with the remaining junction path of "/mnt/Vol1" for the given path of "/mnt/Vol1"
Reason: Junction create failed (2) "

I also created a volume called mnt and set it to the junction path of mnt.
Then, I was able to set "/mnt/Vol1" to the Junction Pass of "Vol1".
Then, I was able to mount it on "/mnt/Vol1" from Linux, but I couldn't access anything from Windows.

thanks

Re: access mount path from windows and linux

parisi — Fri, 20 May 2022 14:32:42 GMT

You can't have two different junction paths.

Why do you need to have the path be /mnt/vol1? What's the use case for that? In NFS, all you'd need to do is mount with the following command:

#mkdir /mnt/vol1

# mount ontap:/vol1 /mnt/vol1

And then your client would access the storage from /mnt/vol1.

The reason you can't simply make /mnt/vol1 the junction path is that /mnt has to exist in ONTAP's namespace. When you created the volume with /mnt as the path, that allowed you to mount to that path within ONTAP.

The reason the SMB share failed after that is you likely didn't create a share with /mnt/vol1 as the path.

But ultimately it shouldn't matter what the path is inside ONTAP; what matters is what the client is presented.

For SMB, it would be \\ontap\sharename regardless of which path that share points to in ONTAP.

For NFS, it would be /vol1 or /mnt/vol1. But it doesn't make sense to create the junction path /mnt/vol1 when you can just create that path on the client if you need that specific path.

Re: access mount path from windows and linux

DarrenJ — Tue, 24 May 2022 03:37:33 GMT

These two documents might be helpful in configuring multiprotocol access.

https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/27436-tr-4887.pdf

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-sm-classic/nas-multiprotocol-config/index.html

Re: access mount path from windows and linux

Reverett — Tue, 24 May 2022 06:48:50 GMT

To be able to have both unix and cifs users access you will need to setup usermapping one way to do this is described in the document below:

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-sm-classic/nas-multiprotocol-config/task_mapping_unix_windows_user_names.html