What is the impact of modifying/deleting or recreating a cifs server on ONTAP?
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Data ONTAP 8 7-mode
- CIFS
Answer
Data ONTAP 8 7-mode
Q1: What is the impact of running CIFS setup again ?
- CIFS setup cannot be run until the CIFS service is terminated
ontap7m> cifs setup
CIFS Setup can not be run while CIFS is active
- The "
cifs terminate
" command will cause the CIFS service to be stopped for the particular vfiler it is run against - When CIFS is terminated, the symlinks, shares, and share ACLs will remain intact
ONTAP 9
Q1: What is the impact of running CIFS create again?
- Running cifs create a second time requires that the CIFS server be deleted. See question 3 below for impact of deleting a CIFS server
Q2: What is the impact of deleting and recreating a CIFS server?
- Any current SMB\CIFSsessions will be closed. New SMB\CIFS authentication will be denied until the CIFS server is created again.
- CIFS symlinks/widelinks configuration will be deleted for the SVM
- CIFS shares and share ACLs for the SVM will be deleted
- Data contained in the shares will not be deleted
- CIFS server/security options may be deleted
Note: If the machine account has been deleted, CIFS server Machine account deleted from AD can be followed to recreate the machine account without deleting the CIFS server via the "cifs modify
" command.
Q3: What is the impact of modifying a CIFS server name?
cifs modity -cifs-server <new_name>
- Modifying the CIFS server name requires that the CIFS service on the SVM to be set to administratively down (closing all CIFS connections)
- Modifying the CIFS server name will delete the existing Active Directory object, and create a new Active Directory object with the new name
Q4: What is the impact of modifying the domain of a CIFS server?
- Modifying the domain of the CIFS server requires that the CIFS service on the SVM be set to administratively down (closing all CIFS connections)
- Modifying the domain of the CIFS server will not remove any security information (such as ACEs on file permissions) related to the previous domain
Q5: What is the impact of modifying the organizational unit (OU) of a CIFS server?
- Modifying the OU of the Cifs server requires that the CIFS service on the SVM be set to administratively down (closing all CIFS connections)
Additional Information
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