can't stop cifs service

[michaelgodfrey]

the cifs service on a fas2020 seems to be stuck in a starting phase.

>cifs terminate

Cannot execute command: CIFS is in the process of starting.

it's been saying this for quite some time.  i'll give it another day and see what happens....

any idea's?

[radek_kubka]

How about rebooting the filer?

[anthonyfeigl]

Hey Michael,

I am assuming that you cannot shut down the filer for some reason.

Here is a doc on how to stop cifs access for a volume so that you do no not impact other volume access for cifs, so this may help.

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb17676

Hope this helps.

Anthony Feigl