A-16 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
Changing the settings of existing shares
To change the settings of an existing share, use the -ch ange option:
cifs shares -change sharename
{ -comment description | -nocomment }
{ -maxusers userlimit | -nomaxusers }
{ -forcegroup groupname | -noforcegroup }
The settings of a share can be changed at any time, even if the share is in use.
sharename is the name of the existing share that is to be changed.
-comment description
changes the description of the share. For more information about the share
description setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.
-nocomment
changes the description of the share to an empty string.
-maxusers userlimit
changes the user limit on the share. For more information about the user
limit setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.
-nomaxusers removes the user limit on the share.
-forcegroup groupname
changes the forcegroup setting. For more information about the forcegroup
setting, see the Creating new shares section, above.
-noforcegroup
specifies that files to be created in the share do not belong to a particular
UNIX group. That is, each file belongs to the same group as the owner of the
file.
SEE ALSO
cifs_access
cifs shares