Thank you very much for your assistance on this. I really appreciate it. So, to summarize, I should be able to use the standard windows shell scripts, or power shell, to manipulate shares and directories on the Celerra environment, but not VBScript?

Also, thank you very much for the guides, they should prove to be some good reading. Hopefully between those documents and some windows research I should be able to write something that works.

Thanks again.

Rob

Robert Kimball

Arrow Electronics, Inc.

Data Security Analyst

Email: rkimball@arrow.com

Work Phone: 631-847-5353

Rob,

if you are using Celerra as a space that hosts your user's home drive you might want to look in Celerra's functionality such as: Home folder, Access based enumeration and tree/user quotas.

Are those seperate products/Applications? What I require is a method of automation by either vbscript or windows shell scripting.

Rob

Rob,

Yes, Home folder, Access based enumeration and tree/user quotas are build-in functionality into Celerra.

This message thread was originally posted in the ECN Connect area.

It has now been moved to the new Celerra Unified Storage forum in the ECN Open Exchange area.

Celerra developer/programming questions should be posted to the Celerra Developer community

you can download Celerra apps&tools cd which contains emcabe command line tool that allows you to enable ABE on Celerra shares.

How do you enable Access Based Enumeration on a CIFS share?  I have a Celerra and want to explore this as an alternative to building a Windows Server virtual machine just to do file server purposes.

Ok and I can then turn it on or off per share?

Why didn't they just put a checkbox in the CIFS share properties?  Why wouldn't you want ABE?

I just don't want it to affect the iscsi luns that are on the Celerra.  We have a lot of free diskspace so I wanted to experiment setting up a file server.

sauerk wrote: Ok and I can then turn it on or off per share? Why didn't they just put a checkbox in the CIFS share properties?  Why wouldn't you want ABE? I just don't want it to affect the iscsi luns that are on the Celerra.  We have a lot of free diskspace so I wanted to experiment setting up a file server.

yes, you can enable/disable on per share bases. Some shops don't use ABE becase their dicrectory structure does not allow them to do that, some don't want to.

Thanks.  I found my Apps & Tools CD and I'll see if I can figure it out.  Thanks for your help.