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Terminating and restarting CIFS on a volume

You can terminate and restart CIFS on a volume by using the advanced -v parameter with the cifs terminate and cifs restart commands, respectively. Terminating a volume is not persistent across reboots.

About this task

For example, if you are migrating data in a volume or restoring files from a Snapshot copy, you can terminate and restart CIFS connections on that volume instead of on the entire storage system.

Steps

  1. Set the privilege level to advanced: priv set advanced
  2. To terminate CIFS service for a volume, enter the following command: cifs terminate -v vol
    vol is the name of the volume for which you want to terminate CIFS service.
  3. To restart CIFS service for a volume, enter the following command: cifs restart -v vol
    vol is the name of the volume for which you want to restart CIFS service.