SMB Shares in Isilon’s OneFS

One of the keys capabilities with Isilon’s OneFS is creating Server Message Block (SMB) shares for network storage. In this episode of Isilon Quick Tips learn how to create SMB shares in OneFS.

 

Setting SMB Shares in OneFS

Transcript

Welcome back to another episode  of Isilon Quick Tip and today we ‘re actually going to map  a shared drive  using  SMB so think of your windows  environment being able to set up shares for home  directories to share data  between it  maybe share files between  some sort of organization and today we ‘re going to actually look at how to do that through the protocols

So from  here in the OneFS directory the first  thing to go  to   use will go to our   protocol and yes and   B shares as you can  see from here that we already have one created  this one comes with default this  is that  ifs directory and so the   IFS   directories you know is everything that   in   I salon is under that directory   so if  we were back and we look at our file system storage using the file system explorer  that ‘s pulling up you can see  that under  RIFs directory we have a home  directory  data directory in a couple  different other  ones so we can actually   drive   drill down and look here now   i ‘m   going to   switch over   look   at our file  explorer  and you can see that   i already   have the   IFS directory match here  this  message is that what we ‘re seeing  within the one  of   us   web doing until you  see that i have my data directory  in my  home directory  when my sub directories in this   and  you ‘ll notice here when we  map   the  directory that  i use the IP address of  the know that  i was   using but that ‘s  only because  i don ‘t have the net   set up   on my local machine   but in most your  instances you ‘ll have that  DNS name that you ‘ll use  here   that   actually   you ‘re smart   connect name   let ‘s go through and actually set up  another  FB share so say that   within our  directory that we have a file share that we want to set up for all of our movie date and say that you know we have different movie research that we ‘re doing and  we ‘ve set up specific share  around that  so it ‘s really simple to do   so back   into our   protocols   when you are  going to create  an   SMB share will call  this one movie and this  is just all of  our movie research data  will set it for  everyone to share  and then here   we ‘ll  just actually  say the past so anything   and dr s remember back it ‘s under data   directory   you see that I ‘ve got some  files under here or I ‘m  DB movie  information  in   a couple different other   ones the   director has already   been  created  so we don ‘t need to check this  box here and we ‘re going let  it apply  the default  apo but you can actually set  it so that it doesn ‘t change any existing  this comes in really handy  whenever you ‘re setting up a share on a  subdirectory file or you didn ‘t want to   reverse all the subdirectories under it   just wanted to   make that share available  we ‘re  going to keep the account things  all the same here and we ‘ll go ahead and create that share  and now if we want to   set up that share so that we can see it  and open our file explorer  going here  map network drive going to select  the  specific  drugs just as a   reminder if you  have that smart connect name you want to use that here  I don ‘t have smart connect   setup for dns so I ‘m going use my   future  and now you have that file share  and now   I can start   moving over my movie data  and open up my files and being able to share documents for all of our movie research and that ‘s  how simple it is   the   setup an   SMB   share in   I   salons   oneFS   be  sure to subscribe to my channel so you can get more  Isilon quick tips