[Samba] Problem getting share list from NetApp

Mike Partyka mpartyka at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 23:46:00 GMT 2006


Do you have access to the Filer console via telnet/rsh/ssh? That is the
easiest method i can think of off the top of my head, then you just issue
the command "cifs shares", and you'll get a list of the CIFS shares on the
storage applicance.

On 1/16/06, Peter Gordon <peter at pg-consultants.com> wrote:
>
> We defined a share, sales_cifs_test, on our NetApp server. Note that the
> length ofour the name is longer than 13 characters.
>
> We can see the share with Microsoft Explorer.
>
> We can mount the share from Linux using smbmount.
>
> What we want to do is to get a list of shares from NetApp. The tools
> that can do this are the samba programs smbclient and net.
>
>   Smbclient will not show names longer than 13 characters.
>
>   The following command gives a share list, but again, does not include
> names longer than 13 characters.
>
>   net  net -W YOURDOMAIN --user='user%password' -w YOURDOMANIN -S
> NETAPP_SERVER_IP rap share
>
> The command
> net  net -W YOURDOMAIN --user='user%password' -w YOURDOMANIN -S
> NETAPP_SERVER_IP rpc share
>
> is the samba command that gives a list of shares, even if they have
> long names. The problem is that we can't get it to access NetApp
> successfully.
>
> We have searched both the Netapp site and the Samba site and can't find
> anything that is relevant.
>
> We would really appreciate an answer as to why the command is failing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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