Creating an SMB share by using GUI

You can create an SMB share by using the IBM Storage Scale GUI to share data with the users of the system.

You need to enable and start the SMB service on the cluster to create an SMB share in the cluster. You can start and stop the SMB service from the Services > SMB page of the IBM Storage Scale GUI.

Perform the following steps to create an SMB share to host or share the data over the SMB protocol:

  1. Go to Protocols > SMB Shares page in the IBM Storage Scale GUI. The SMB Shares page appears.
  2. Click Create Share. The Create Share window appears. You can create a share either in the Basic mode or Custom mode. This procedure describes the steps to create an SMB share in the Custom mode.
  3. Click Custom tab on the Create Share window.
  4. Click Browse and select the path of the share in the Path field.
  5. Type the name of the share in the Share name field.
  6. Type the owner of the share in the Owner field.
  7. Specify the associated owner group for the path in the Owning group field.
  8. Click Edit to modify the file system ACL of the path that is going to be shared by the SMB protocol. This action only modifies the file system permission. SMB Share ACLs can be set only by using the mmsmb command.
  9. Type a meaningful description in the Comment field.
  10. Specify the SMB protocol-specific attributes to define share access, cross-protocol integration, oplocks, offline availability, encryption, data integrity, and permission to allow recalls from external pools in the corresponding fields. Hover help is available for each of these fields to explain about the features associated with these fields.
  11. Specify the administrator user name in the Administrative user field. The administrative users have effective root level access through SMB and these users are not bound to the ACL permissions. You can specify multiple users as administrators by using comma after typing each user name.
  12. Click Create to complete the SMB share creation.