If the shares you want to create are for each user home directory then, yes, there’s an automated way to do it in Data ONTAP called the cifs.homedir feature.

Basically you give the controller a set of paths where the homedirs live.  The paths should contain directories that match the username of the user.  Then, when the feature is activated a share of the name of the user will automatically be made available when that user connects to the storage via CIFS.

So, for example.  User ‘bob’ connects via CIFS, say by using \\netapp  (where netapp is the name of the controller).  Along with any other shares manually created there will be an extra share called ‘bob’ as well and that share will automatically point to a directory called ‘ bob’ in one of the defined paths.  Consequently when user ‘mary’ connects, she will see a share called ‘mary’, but not a share called ‘bob’.

Is that what you are trying to do?

-- Adam Fox

Systems Engineer

adamfox@netapp.com

From: David McWilliams [mailto:davidkmcw@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:41 PM
To: NetApp list
Subject: NetApp scripting question

I am putting in a new filer to replace three Windows servers and in the process I will have to create approx 110 shares. I have heard that there is a way of scripting the process. does anyone have any information that they could provide for me on this process?

Sláinte,

David

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