ONTAP does not have a feature to disable CIFS Shares Note: This will only make sure that the share is not visible unless it is being accessed by its own path. The Volume to which the share is created ...ONTAP does not have a feature to disable CIFS Shares Note: This will only make sure that the share is not visible unless it is being accessed by its own path. The Volume to which the share is created can be made offline and then online again. Once the volume is online again, clients should be able to recover. Shares can be recreated using the same path and this would have the data within the volume/path intact Data inside the volume is not affected when the share pointer is deleted/recreated.