You can’t. The %Z will get expanded to the access zone if I remember correctly. Either that or the NETBIOS domain name.

Andrew Chung

EMC²| Isilon Storage Division

Practice Architect

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That’s frustrating.

I inherited an isilon configuration and attempting to map out the explicit folder paths for the existing shares is proving challenging.

Thanks.

Jim Kunysz

Senior Systems Engineer

RoundTower Technologies, Inc.

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Jim,

What version of OneFS are you running?  For me it returns the full path..  I'm running v7.0.1.5, with Access Zones...  BTW I'm local to you... 

Are these shares or home directory shares?

running 7.0.1.1. these are shares.

to top it off, I have a configuration like below:

/ifs/data/parent

/ifs/data/parent/folder1/build

/ifs/data/parent/folder2/build

where folder1 and folder2 are both defined as zones.

And there is a share on /build.

the 'isi smb shares list'  returns /ifs/data/parent/%Z/build

and 'isi zone zones list -v' returns build listed in both zones.

what is the correct path for the share?

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Ah,  I see what's going on now... This was actually created as one single share.  The path is expanded based on which access zone the end user is accessing.. If they are accessing via "Zone_1" it will have the path /ifs/data/parent/Zone_1/build... If they are accessing it zia "Zone_2" it will be /ifs/data/parent/Zone_2/build... So both paths are valid..  What i'd suggest is start with a list of Access Zones.  Then you can use the name of the zone to populate %z yourself...

The other option,  and I don't think this is a good one,  is to delete the current SMB share that uses %z and re-created two new shares using the specific full path..

Or, you could parse the output of isi zones list -v,  use that to get a list of the shares... and the name of the zone... then parse the output of isi smb shares view , and do a regex search and replace and %Z with the name of the zone from the previous command..

Quick shell script could give you something you can reuse at customer's sites..

Mark, not necessarily.

this is the part that is confusing to me

If I perform an 'isi smb shares list', one of the shares it lists is:

BFInstalls              /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/BFInstalls

If I run the isi zone zones list -v, the BFInstalls isn't listed as a share in any zone.

but I can run a 'isi smb shares view BFInstalls

and it returns with the following values

       Share Name: BFInstalls

        Path: /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/BFInstalls

Nothing I get helps me determine where the BFIntalls lives.

Okay,  so I tested this out on my end running 7.0.1.5...  I've stripped out a ton of lines...

isilon-n1# isi smb shares list

Share Name                    Path

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

ss_hd                         /ifs/data/test/%Z/data

isilon-n1# isi zone zones list -v

                Name: Test

      SMB Shares: users:users, test:test, ifs$:ifs$

      .......

                Name: Test2

      SMB Shares: backup:backup, office:office, ss_hd:ss_hd

So I can tell by this output the path to ss_data,  when accessed across the Test2 zone, is "/ifs/data/test/Test2/data".. If this isn't the behavior you're seeing,  i'm curious if this is a bug with the version you are on... 

isi zone zones list -v |grep -i bfinstalls

should return something.... unless it is not longer allocated to any zones.... or a zone is set to all SMB Shares (i'm un-aware how this option shows up)

I have an upgrade on the agenda to 7.0.1.6 and maybe it fixes my issues. BFInstalls is listed as a smb share but not under any zone. it wouldn't be that difficult if the number of folders/sub folders was small but it isn't and the structure is duplicated.

isilon-corp1-1# isi smb shares list

Share Name              Path

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Acronis_Images          /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Acronis_Images

BFInstalls              /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/BFInstalls

Branches                /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Branches

Builds                  /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Builds

Builds_for_deletion     /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Builds_for_deletion

CI                      /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/CI

Depot_Manage            /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z

Depot_Manage2           /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z

IMPORT                  /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/IMPORT

ITT                     /ifs/data/International/%Z/ITT

Installers              /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Installers

Installers_for_deletion /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Installers_for_deletion

Kits                    /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Kits

Logs                    /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Logs

Mirrors                 /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Mirrors

Misc                    /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Misc

Pando                   /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Pando

Prop                    /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Prop

Prop_for_deletion       /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Prop_for_deletion

RMT                     /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/RMT

SECURITY_DUMP           /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/SECURITY_DUMP

Share                   /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/Share

autoprop                /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/autoprop

dbbackup                /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/dbbackup

ifs$                    /ifs

temp                    /ifs/data/Release_Engineering/%Z/temp

testshare               /ifs/data/testshare

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total: 27

isilon-corp1-1# isi zone zones list -v |grep BFInstalls

isilon-corp1-1#

Does "isi zone zones list -v" return "All SMB Shares: Yes" for any zones?

Just curious,  how many zones do you have?

And if you browse with UNC Path to an isilon interface in the iss-archive zone,  do you see the BFInstalles?