Connect SMB clients

This page provides instructions for how to connect SMB clients.

Before you begin

Before you begin, make sure your client is logged in as a valid domain user.

Connect SMB clients

Use the following instructions to connect SMB clients using the Google Cloud console or Google Cloud CLI or ONTAP-mode.

Console

  1. Go to the NetApp Volumes page in the Google Cloud console.

    Go to NetApp Volumes

  2. Click Volumes.

  3. Click Show more.

  4. Click Mount instructions.

  5. Follow the mount instructions shown in the Google Cloud console.

  6. Click Finish.

gcloud

Run the following command:

gcloud netapp volumes describe VOLUME_NAME \
  --project=PROJECT_ID \
  --location=LOCATION \
  --format="value(mountOptions.instructions)"

Replace the following information:

  • VOLUME_NAME: the name of the volume.

  • PROJECT_ID: the name of the project the volume is in.

  • LOCATION: the location of the volume.

For more information about additional optional flags, see Google Cloud SDK documentation on volumes.

ONTAP-mode

Use the following steps to identify your volume's hostname or IP address, and share name:

  1. Look up the computer account name you used when you created the SMB server. When joining the domain, ONTAP registers this name with Active Directory DNS using secure DDNS updates. For large capacity volumes, ONTAP registers all IP addresses for that hostname.

  2. Find the IP addresses of the share by looking up all network interfaces for the data_cifs service.

  3. Look up the share name assigned to your volume.

  4. Connect your client to \\<var>HOSTNAME</var>\<var>SHARENAME</var>.

  5. If you use IP addresses instead of the hostname, make sure your Active Directory has the appropriate Kerberos service principal names (SPN) created for those IP addresses.

After you identify the required commands, see ONTAP-mode for instructions about how to submit ONTAP commands to the storage pool.

What's next

Connect NFS clients.