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Dell Unity™ Family Unisphere® Command Line Interface User Guide

Change CIFS server settings

Modify an existing CIFS (SMB) server.

If moving a CIFS server from one domain to another, include the following options:

  • [-domain <value>]
  • [-newUsername <value> {-newPasswd <value> | -newPasswdSecure}]

Note that you must specify the username and password of the domain to which the CIFS server was previously joined in order to perform the unjoin. You must also specify the user name and password of the new domain to which it will be joined.

Format

/net/nas/cifs {-id <value> | -name <value>} set [-name <value>] [-description <value>] [-netbiosName <value>] [-currentUsername <value> {-currentPasswd <value> | -currentPasswdSecure} | -skipUnjoin} ] { [-domain <value>] [-newUsername <value> {-newPasswd <value> | -newPasswdSecure} ] | [-orgUnit <value>] | -workgroup <value>] [ {-adminPasswd <value> | -adminPasswdSecure} ] }

Object qualifiers

QualifierDescription
-idType the ID of the CIFS server to change .
-name Type the name of the CIFS server to change.

Action qualifiers

QualifierDescription
-nameSpecifies the new CIFS server name.
-descriptionSpecifies the description of the CIFS server.
-netbiosNameSpecifies the new CIFS server NetBIOS name.
-domainSpecifies the new Windows server domain name.
-orgUnit Active Directory organizational unit.
-currentUsernameSpecifies the current domain user.
-currentPasswdSpecifies the current domain user password.
-currentPasswdSecureSpecifies the current password in secure mode - the user will be prompted to input the password and the password confirmation.
-skipUnjoin Do not unjoin the CIFS server from an AD domain.
-newUsernameSpecifies the new domain user.
-newPasswdSpecifies the new domain user password.
-newPasswdSecureSpecifies the new password in secure mode - the user will be prompted to input the password and the password confirmation.
-workgroupSpecifies the new workgroup of the stand-alone CIFS server.
-adminPasswdSpecifies the new local admin password of the stand-alone CIFS server.
-adminPasswdSecureSpecifies the password in secure mode - the user will be prompted to input the password and the password confirmation.

Example

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /net/nas/cifs -id CIFS_0 set -workgroup MyWorkgroup -adminPasswd MyPassword
Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

ID = CIFS_0
Operation completed successfully.


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