topic Re: cifs sessions by share.... in Network and Storage Protocols

cifs sessions by share....

johnlockie — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:25:27 GMT

Hello friends.

Does anyone know a good method on CLI to display sessions per share/s? The man page for "cifs sessions" shows very few options.

I need to delete some CIFS shares that some users currently have locked files on. I have hundreds of users, so to go user by user is impossible. I would like to show session by share, so that I can pinpoint the couple of users locking files in the shares I need to remove (so that I can then copy them to new shares).

Thanks,

John

Re: cifs sessions by share....

adamfox — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:28:56 GMT

Try this:

netapp> cifs sessions *

(note the ' * ')

Re: cifs sessions by share....

johnlockie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:33:39 GMT

Perfection, just pure perfection. Thanks!

I also didn't realize I could plug the nbalias for cifs in to computer management snap-in and view the details that way.

Still, I like to know how to do this on CLI, your advice is a huge help.

Re: cifs sessions by share....

adamfox — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:36:49 GMT

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Computer Management way...that works too. I guess I'm just a CLI guy at heart so my thoughts always go there first.

Anyway, glad it helped.

Re: cifs sessions by share....

amiller_1 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:28:08 GMT

I could be off base here (as am not looking at it right now) but I think that Systems Manager may be able to handle this as well.

"cifs sessions *" definitely is very cool though.