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Commands for managing CIFS servers

You need to know the commands for creating, displaying, modifying, stopping, starting, and deleting CIFS servers. There are also commands to reset and rediscover servers, change or reset machine account passwords, schedule changes for machine account passwords, and add or remove NetBIOS aliases.

CIFS server management commands

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Create a CIFS servervserver cifs create
Display information about a CIFS server vserver cifs show
Modify a CIFS servervserver cifs modify
Move a CIFS server to another domainvserver cifs modify
Stop a CIFS servervserver cifs stop
Start a CIFS servervserver cifs start
Delete a CIFS servervserver cifs delete
Reset and rediscover servers for the CIFS servervserver cifs domain discovered-servers reset-servers
Change the CIFS server's machine account passwordvserver cifs domain password change
Reset the CIFS server's machine account passwordvserver cifs domain password change
Schedule automatic password changes for the CIFS server's machine accountvserver cifs domain password schedule modify
Add NetBIOS aliases for the CIFS servervserver cifs add-netbios-aliases
Remove NetBIOS aliases for the CIFS servervserver cifs remove-netbios-aliases

See the man page for each command for more information.