topic Re: CIFS Shares Without Adding to Domain? in Network and Storage Protocols

CIFS Shares Without Adding to Domain?

hello-jon — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:14:36 GMT

Is it possible to create a CIFS server on cDOT 8.3 without joining it to a domain first?

We have several NFS SVMs with LIFs on a non-routable VLAN utilize jumbo frames and would like to create some CIFS shares on that VLAN too, however we cannot configure CIFS without first joining it to our domain over a routable interface.

Re: CIFS Shares Without Adding to Domain?

aborzenkov — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 03:50:05 GMT

No; this possibility appears in Data ONTAP 9 (RC1 is now available).

Re: CIFS Shares Without Adding to Domain?

hello-jon — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:21:51 GMT

Thanks, we've settled on the SVM having two LIFs: one on the routable network that does the authenticating, and one on the non-routable jumbo frame network. We were able to achieve harmony by deleting the route table entry for the non-routable network.