if you create 5 shares that point to the same folder ..why would you expect see anything different ?

so we are supposed to be creating a filesystem for every share?

you create a file system, then create different folder (if that's what you want) and then share each folder individually. I might be missing what you are trying to do here.

You can create 5 different file systems for 5 shares or you can create 5 folders in one file system and create 5 different shares on each folder on this  filesystem.

The PATH you mentioned in the Share is important - in your case, you might have created 5 shares with 5 different names but on the same Path.

You may consider the file system as your C: drive and create share on either the entire C drive or on a folder inside the drive.

You can also use Tree Quotas in a  file system - which will automatically create a folder and restrict the capacity of the folder based on the quota size. In this way, you may create one file system and restrict the shares in the file system to use a specific amount of space.

Please refer to the documents or Celerra Manager online help pages to get more details.

My 2 cents
Sandip

Or if you create a global share that visible on all CIFS servers

So we are unable to create folders under the filesystem... we get permission denied.  So it looks like the only option is to create a file system for every single share???

i get this too ... Let's say you connect with MMC to your CIFS server, go to Shared folder, right click on shares and select "new share. When you get to folder path option, hit Browse and expand c$ , select your file system and hit ok. When you get to where you need to assign permission, go to Advanced, Owner tab and take ownership of the folder. At this point you should be able to create new folders and assign permissions.

Let's slow down a bit. :-)  Let's start with how you're creating the shares on the filesystem.  You say get "Permission Denied".  Are you creating them from the Windows Computer Management MMC?   Is there you get permission denied?  If so, check to see if your account is in the Administrators group on the given CIFS server.  If you are in the Administrators group, check the output from the control station command line with server_log server_2.  Check around the time you tried to create the share and see what's there.  Post the output and we'll see how we can help you.

Thanks!

Karl

If you cannot create folders than you have done something wrong

Most likely you are doing this with an account that isn’t in the Celerra CIFS’s servers local administrator group