Are there any ways to restrict hosts to access CIFS shares? Or, If it is necessary at all?

[heightsnj]

We can authenticate users to access CIFS shares by AD. However, are there any ways to allow a certain of serers to access shares? Or if there are such needs at all?

Thanks!

[SeanHatfield]

You can use export policies:

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1141094/html/GUID-8B4CEBB7-7054-48FD-A98D-5C10E1F01436.html

It's usually disabled by default for CIFS:

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196891/html/GUID-08D59527-AFC2-4237-9BAE-4FB7C8A90E0F.html

[bhorner]

You may also want to look into Dynamic Access Control:

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1610207/html/GUID-4AD94DBE-ADF9-404D-A03F-E4BFC399AB48.html

you can then apply AD policies with an AND operator such as a particular user has to also be on a particular machine to access a share.