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Today is hump day and with that comes some added motivation to update this blog with some new material! The following post discusses another common topic and that is the termination of CIFS sessions in cDOT. This task could be performed in 7-mode however the commands have since changed in cDOT. Refer to the following tutorial below to kill any unwanted CIFS for a specific Windows user: Display the current CIFS session(s) for the user and record the value(s) in the “Connection ID” column ...

After spending the last few weeks moving into my new place and having “fun” furnishing it, I am back on the road armed with more content! Within a few hours of being onsite today I got asked if it was possible to set NTFS permissions to files and/or folders within Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT). This is another commonly asked question and the answer to it is yes, you can apply NTFS permissions to filesystem objects from within cDOT. Below I have included a summarized step by step tutorial on how to apply NTFS permissions to a given path (can be the root of a volume or a file or folder which resides within a cDOT volume): ...