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Display the list of NetBIOS aliases on CIFS servers

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You can display the list of NetBIOS aliases. This can be useful when you want to determine the list of names over which SMB clients can make connections to the CIFS server.

Step

  1. Perform one of the following actions:

    If you want to display information about…​ Enter…​

    A CIFS server's NetBIOS aliases

    vserver cifs show -display-netbios-aliases

    The list of NetBIOS aliases as part of the detailed CIFS server information

    vserver cifs show -instance

    The following example displays information about a CIFS server's NetBIOS aliases:

    vserver cifs show -display-netbios-aliases

    Vserver: vs1

         Server Name: CIFS_SERVER
         NetBIOS Aliases: ALIAS_1, ALIAS_2, ALIAS_3

    The following example displays the list of NetBIOS aliases as part of the detailed CIFS server information:

    vserver cifs show -instance

                                              Vserver: vs1
                         CIFS Server NetBIOS Name: CIFS_SERVER
                    NetBIOS Domain/Workgroup Name: EXAMPLE
                      Fully Qualified Domain Name: EXAMPLE.COM
Default Site Used by LIFs Without Site Membership:
                             Authentication Style: domain
                CIFS Server Administrative Status: up
                          CIFS Server Description:
                          List of NetBIOS Aliases: ALIAS_1, ALIAS_2, ALIAS_3

    See the man page for the commands for more information.

Related information

Adding a list of NetBIOS aliases to the CIFS server

Commands for managing CIFS servers