topic Re: Creating multiple CIFS shares at one time in Network and Storage Protocols

Creating multiple CIFS shares at one time

jroberts_2589 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:12:18 GMT

I am in the process of migrating data from a FAS3050 system to a FAS3170 system. I have many CIFS shares that have to be created and permissions added.

When dealing with the NFS exports, I can simply make changes to the /vol/etc/exports file.

Is it possible to do the same thing for CIFS? Can I edit the /vol/etc/cifsconfig_share.cfg file and copy relevant share names and permissiosn from one filer to the new filer? How do I trigger the Netapp to read the cifsconfig_shares.cfg file again?

If this can be done, it will save me hours of work.

Thank you for your help.

Jack Roberts

Re: Creating multiple CIFS shares at one time

adamfox — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:58:32 GMT

In general, that works. You have to bounce the cifs service (cifs terminate / cifs restart) to get ONTAP to re-read the files (it's not meant to be done this way).

The biggest caveats come if you are changing domains and don't have a trust or if you have local users or groups as those may not work when you move the SIDs over.

Hope this helps.

Re: Creating multiple CIFS shares at one time

jroberts_2589 — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:19:05 GMT

Thank you very much. It worked like a champ!