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Determining whether SMB clients are connected using NetBIOS aliases

You can determine whether SMB clients are connected using NetBIOS aliases, and if so, which NetBIOS alias is used to make the connection. This can be useful when troubleshooting connection issues.

About this task

You must use the -instance parameter to display the NetBIOS alias (if any) associated with an SMB connection. If the CIFS server name or an IP address is used to make the SMB connection, the output for the NetBIOS Name field is - (hyphen).

Perform the desired action:
If you want to display NetBIOS information for...Enter...
SMB connectionsvserver cifs session show -instance
Connections using a specified NetBIOS alias:vserver cifs session show -instance -netbios-name netbios_name

Example

The following example displays information about the NetBIOS alias used to make the SMB connection with session ID 1:

vserver cifs session show -session-id 1 -instance
                 
                        Node: node1
                     Vserver: vs1
                  Session ID: 1
               Connection ID: 127834
Incoming Data LIF IP Address: 10.1.1.25
                 Workstation: 10.2.2.50
    Authentication Mechanism: NTLMv2
                Windows User: EXAMPLE\user1
                   UNIX User: user1
                 Open Shares: 2
                  Open Files: 2
                  Open Other: 0
              Connected Time: 1d 1h 10m 5s
                   Idle Time: 22s
            Protocol Version: SMB3
      Continuously Available: No
           Is Session Signed: true
       User Authenticated as: domain-user
                NetBIOS Name: ALIAS1
       SMB Encryption Status: Unencrypted