Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Configure SMB Home Shares

Enable SMB home shares to create a share for a client that is limited to that particular client.

1. Create an SMB share containing a user-based directory tree:
   1. In the Storage view, select a FluidFS cluster.
   2. Click the File System tab.
   3. In the File System view, select SMB Shares.
   4. In the SMB Shares panel, click Edit SMB Home Share Settings.
      The Set SMB Home Share dialog box opens.
   5. Select the Enabled checkbox for the SMB Home Share option.
   6. Click Change in the NAS Volume area.
      The Select NAS Volume dialog box opens.
   7. Select the NAS volume on which the SMB home shares are located and click OK.
   8. In the Initial path field, specify a folder that is the root of all the users’ folders (for example, /users).
      NOTE:A folder name must be less than 100 characters long and cannot contain the following characters: >, ", \, |, ?, and *

      • To specify an existing folder, type the path to the folder in the Initial path field.
      • To browse for an existing folder:

        Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box opens and displays the top-level folders for the NAS volume. Locate and select the folder, and then click OK.

        • To drill down to a particular folder and view the subfolders, double-click the folder name.
        • To view the parent folders of a particular folder, click Up.
      • To browse existing directories and create a new folder:
        Click Select Folder. The Select Folder dialog box opens and displays the top-level folders for the NAS volume. Navigate to the folder in which to create the new folder and click Create Folder. The Create Folder dialog box opens. In the Folder Name field, type a name for the folder, then click OK to close the Create Folder dialog box. Select the new folder and click OK.

        • To drill down to a particular folder and view the subfolders, double-click the folder name.
        • To view the parent folders of a particular folder, click Up.
   9. From the Folder template drop-down list, select the form that the user’s folders should take:
      • Select /Domain/User if you want the user’s folders to take the form initial_path / domain / user_name.
      • Select /User if you want the user’s folders to take the form initial_path / user_name.
   10. (Optional) Configure the remaining SMB home shares attributes as needed. These options are described in the online help.
       • To prevent clients accessing the share from being able to view the names of folders and files in the share to which they do not have access, click the Content tab and select the Access Based Enumeration checkbox.
       • To enable virus scanning for SMB home shares, click the Antivirus Scanners tab and select the Virus Scan checkbox.
       • To exempt directories from antivirus scanning, select the Folders Filtering Enabled checkbox and specify the directories in the Directories excluded from scan list.
       • To exempt file extensions from antivirus scanning, select the File Extension Filtering Enabled checkbox and specify the extensions in the Extensions excluded from scan list.
       • To deny access to files larger than the specified antivirus scanning file size threshold, select the Deny un-scanned large files checkbox.
       • To change the maximum size of files that are included in antivirus scanning, type a size in the Virus scan file size threshold field in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB), gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB).
   11. Click OK.
   If you did not enable automatic folder creation, perform steps 2 and 3.
2. Give ownership of the SMB home shares to the account that will create the folders (either using a user-created script or manually) for each user’s home share.
   1. Using Windows Explorer, connect to the SMB home share initial path.
   2. In the security setting of the SMB share, click Advanced and change the owner to Domain Admins, a specific domain administrator, or a FluidFS cluster administrator account.
   3. Disconnect from the SMB home share and reconnect to it as the account that has ownership of it.
3. Using Windows Explorer, for each user that you want to be given a home share, create a folder for them that conforms to the folder template you selected previously.