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Shared Folders
The following topics are included:

• What Is the Shared Folders: Status Tab Used For?
• What Is the Shared Folders: Shares and Groups Tab Used For?
• What are Share and Share Groups?
• How to Create a Share Group
• What Information Can Be Changed in the Properties Screen for a Share Group?
• What Information Can Be Changed in the Properties Screen for a Share?
• What are the Security Modes Available For a Share?

What Is the Shared Folders: Status Tab Used For?
The Shared Folders: Status Tab displays the current status of the default sharemgr service. The following operations are supported from this tab:

• The service can be enabled, disabled, refreshed and restarted
• The service can be placed into maintenance or degraded state
• Error states can be cleared

What Is the Shared Folders: Shares and Groups Tab Used For?
The Shared Folders: Shares and Groups Tab displays the current status of any share or share groups configured on the server. The following operations are supported from this tab:

• A share or share group can be added, deleted, or cloned
• Parameters for a share or share group can be edited
• The display can be changed from the icon to the list view or back
• A share, but not a share group, can be moved

What are Share and Share Groups?
A share is file system or a file that is going to be made available for remote mounting. A share group is a container which includes one or more shares.

How to Create a Share Group

1. Add an entry to the shares tab.
   Click the Create Group (+) button and add the name for the share group.
2. (Optional) If necessary, enable the share manager service.
   Click on the Shared Folders: Status tab and enable the share management service.
3. Add at least one share to the share group.
   Return to the Shares tab, click the Create Share (+) button associated with the bar showing the share group and add the path name to the files to be shared.
4. (Optional) If necessary, edit the configuration for the share group.
   Double click the left button on the share group that you want to edit. Then click the edit button. See What Information Can Be Changed in the Properties Screen for a Share Group? for more information.
5. (Optional) If necessary, edit the configuration for each share.
   Double click the left button on the share that you want to edit. Then click the edit button. See What Information Can Be Changed in the Properties Screen for a Share? for more information.

What Information Can Be Changed in the Properties Screen for a Share Group?
The Shared Folders: Shares and Group: Properties screen can be used to change the following parameters for a share group:

• The Name of the share group.
• Allow suid and setguid files to be set on files shared in the share group (this is the opposite of the nosuid parameter in the share command).
• Set effective user ID of unknown users for the share group (equivalent to the anon parameter in the share command).
• The advanced button allows you to configure the following parameters:
  • index — Add a file name to be loaded when a listing of the directory is referenced by an NFS URL
  • cksum
  • nosub — Prevent clients from mounting subdirectories of a shared directory
  • public — Determines the location of the public file handle for WebNFS-enabled browsers and clients.
  • log — Enables NFS server logging
• Set the security mode for the share group. This option is equivalent to the sec option in the share command
  The following security modes are configurable for a share:
  • dh — selects Diffie-Hellman authentication
  • none — selects no authentication
  • sys — uses the users UNIX user id and group id for identification, but the transaction is not authenticated
    Once the security mode is selected, you can configure these options for the share group:
• Select read-only access or read-write for the share. This is equivalent to the ro and rw options in the share command.
• The advanced button allows you to configure root access to the files in the share group.

What Information Can Be Changed in the Properties Screen for a Share?
The Shared Folders: Shares and Groups: Properties screen can be used to change the following parameters for a share:

• The name and a description of the share.
• Allow suid and setguid files to be set on files shared in the share group (this is the opposite of the nosuid parameter in the share command).
• Set effective user ID of unknown users for the share group (equivalent to the anon parameter in the share command).
• The advanced button allows you to configure the following parameters:
  • index — Add a file name to be loaded when a listing of the directory is referenced by an NFS URL
  • cksum
  • nosub — Prevent clients from mounting subdirectories of a shared directory
  • public — Determines the location of the public file handle for WebNFS-enabled browsers and clients.
  • log — Enables NFS server logging
• Set the security mode for the share group. This option is equivalent to the sec option in the share command.
  The following security modes are configurable for a share:
  • dh — selects Diffie-Hellman authentication
  • none — selects no authentication
  • sys — uses the users UNIX user id and group id for identification, but the transaction is not authenticated
    Once the security mode is selected, you can configure these options for the share group:
• Select read-only access or read-write for the share. This is equivalent to the ro and rw options in the share command.
• The advanced button allows you to configure root access to the files in the share group.
  Most of these parameters are inherited from the share group unless the are specifically changed in this window. The inherited values are shown in yellow and have the word inherited displayed after them.

What are the Security Modes Available For a Share?
The following security modes are configurable for a share:

• dh — selects Diffie-Hellman authentication
• none — selects no authentication
• sys — uses the users UNIX user id and group id for identification, but the transaction is not authenticated
  Other security modes are available for use with the sharemgr or share command.