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Enabling or disabling CIFS over IPv6

You can enable or disable CIFS over IPv6 by setting the cifs.ipv6.enable option to on or off, respectively.

Before you begin

You must enable IPv6 on the storage system by setting the ip.v6.enable option to on. For more information about enabling IPv6 on your storage system, see the Data ONTAP Network Management Guide for 7-Mode.

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Step

  1. Perform one of the following actions:
    If you want to... Enter the command...
    Enable CIFS over IPv6 options cifs.ipv6.enable on
    Disable CIFS over IPv6 options cifs.ipv6.enable off
    Note: When CIFS over IPv6 is disabled, no new CIFS sessions are accepted over IPv6, but the existing IPv6 CIFS sessions continue to work over IPv6.