SMB Sharing Options

Share Name is the name the SMB clients will connect to. The share name will default to the dataset name but can be changed using this field. The name is limited by the rules set within the SMB protocol.

Share Description is the optional text used to describe this share for displaying purposes only.

Access Based Enumeration (ABE) is an SMB feature hiding shares from the SMB clients who do not have the permissions needed to access them (default is Disabled).

Note: Enabling ABE on datasets with a very large number of files and nested directories could impact performance because BrickStor SP has to calculate the accesses for each file for each user.

Hide Previous Versions is a Microsoft SMB feature presenting file and directory versions to the SMB clients in order to restore data based on available Data Protection Snapshots. Previous Versions is enabled by default and this feature allows hiding Previous Versions from the SMB clients for a given share.

Host Based Access Control allows further limiting of an SMB share’s access by a given client IP address.

Encryption is an SMB feature securing communication between the SMB server and the client. This option provides server-side a few options configuring how SMB encryption is negotiated between the two.