About managing CIFS shares

You can export the Access Appliance file systems to clients as CIFS shares. When a share is created, it is given a name. The share name is different from the file system name. Clients use the share name when they import the share.

You create and export a share with one command. The same command binds the share to a file system, and you can also use it to specify share properties.

In addition to exporting file systems as CIFS shares, you can use Access Appliance to store user home directories. Each of these home directories is called a home directory share. Shares that are used to export ordinary file systems (that is, file systems that are not used for home directories), are called ordinary shares to distinguish them from home directory shares.