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Need help with Powershell commands for CIFS Sessions

MAHESH1111111 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:24:05 GMT

I was trying to script to list all the open CIFS connections along with the Complete File path that is open to identify the share the user is connected to, then I could filter the share I’m interested in and disconnect all the sessions related to that share.

I couldn’t find a Get command that can give this information, For Ex:

Get-NcCifsSessionFile – gives the file name but not the entire path.
Get-NcCifsSession – gives the ConnectionId but not the path.

I remember you mentioned about doing this completely using Powershell, would you be able to help identify the commands for below:

Get the list of Files (along with their Share Paths) that have an ongoing session along with Connection ID.
Use the Connection ID to kill the session of the user.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Re: Need help with Powershell commands for CIFS Sessions

asulliva — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:05:34 GMT

Hello @MAHESH1111111,

The share name is a property of the object returned by Get-NcCifsSessionFile. You can see the full path using this snippet:

Get-NcCifsSessionFile | Select SessionId,Vserver,Share,Path

If you want a bit more thorough output, you could do something like this:

Get-NcCifsSessionFile | %{
    $session = Get-NcCifsSession -SessionId $_.SessionId

    $data = "" | Select "WindowsUser", "SVM", "Path"
    
    $data.WindowsUser = $session.WindowsUser
    $data.SVM = $_.Vserver
    $data.Path = "\\$($session.LifAddress)\$($_.Share)\$($_.Path)"

    $data
}

Hope that helps.

Andrew

Re: Need help with Powershell commands for CIFS Sessions

MAHESH1111111 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:55:14 GMT

Thanks so much Andrew - updated your command to come up with below:

Get-NcCifsSessionFile | Select SessionId,Vserver,Share,Path,ConnectionId,HostingVolume,Node | Select-String -Pattern <ShareName> | Get-Unique

Close-NcCifsSession -ConnectionId <ConnectionId> -Node <Node> -VserverContext <DataVserver> -Confirm:$false -SessionId <SessionId>

Above two commands will give the list of open files and sessions for a particular share and the details we get from that command can then be scripted to dosconnect the same session.