If you wan't to keep your filerA, filerB, etc names around for your Windows users you can use "options cifs.netbios_alias filerA, filerB" on NewFiler to make your users think they are accessing the old ones.
If your users go to \NewFiler they will see every CIFS share that has been created on that box (assuming you haven't enabled ABE and/or they have the rights). They can then access any that they have permissions to. If you want only a few "top level" shares simply create a few volumes and share them. On those volumes create QTrees/folders that your users will see when they open the shares.
Or you could create a volume with a few QTrees, create your CIFS shares on the QTrees and create folders under those for your users to see. Don't share the volume for them or create a share on the volume and append $ to the sharename - this will prevent it from being visible in the Windows browser but will be able to be accessed by those that know it exists and have permissions to do so.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Letta" letta@jlab.org To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:17 PM Subject: CIFS shares presentation to users
Hello,
We we getting ready to consolidate several older filers onto a single FAS3040. Each of these older filers had several CIFS shares exposed. My users are used to going to the Run box in windows and typing \filerA to get filersA's shares and \filerB to get filer B's shares and so on.
But now there is just \Newfiler. This produces a list of all the CIFS shares that used to be on several different filers.
Is there a way to group several cifs shares together and present them in a folder, or another share ?
I would like to be able to go to \NewFiler, and get a window that has a few folders, each of which holds several shares.
I don't think this can be done, but I thought I would ask here anyways.
Thanks,
Paul