15.1 Managing CIFS Connections

By querying or listing all open connections, you can understand how many sessions are opened at any moment. The details for each connection include the session ID, client IP address, user name, user login time, consolidated list of read/write requests, access mode, and total number of other requests received. You can drill-down to extract per-connection details, such as the group that the user is a member of.

Table 15-2 CIFS Connection Parameters

Parameter

Description

Access mode

Indicates the mode in which the CIFS server has opened the file on behalf of the user. This field displays information that the CIFS server has interpreted from the data received as part of both the Access Mask field and the Share Access field in the SMB_COM_NT_CREATE_ANDX request.

DD

Indicates that the right to delete or rename the file is denied for all other connections.

Desired access

Specifies the access modes that the client has requested.

DR

Indicates that the right to read data from the file is denied.

DW

Indicates that the right to write data into the file is denied.

ND

Indicates that the right to delete or rename the file is denied for this connection.

RD

Indicates that the right to read data from the file is granted.

Shared access

Specifies the sharing modes that the client has requested; that is, how the file should be shared with other users.

WR

Indicates that the right to write data into the file is granted.

  1. Log in to Novell Remote Manager as the root user.

  2. Click Manage CIFS Services > Manage Connections to display the CIFS Connections page.

  3. You can perform the following tasks for open connections on a CIFS server:

    • Status of Open Connections: The CIFS Connection List table displays the connection number, name of user accessing the connection, reads and writes for each connection, CIFS requests by each connection, login details for the connection, and connection type to view CIFS connections for both Active Directory users and eDirectory users.

    • View Connection Information: Click the connection name to view more details for a specific connection.