Share Management via Windows MMC

Setting up an Administrative Share in Fusion

To manage shares via MMC, configure an administrative share in Fusion as follows:

[share]
netname = C$
remark = Administrative Share
path = /mnt/disk
administrative = true
[/share]

Here, ‘C$’ administrative share is configured with root path ‘/mnt/disk’. Therefore, this restricts MMC to create new shares and share only subdirectories under this root path.

Please refer to section 6.16 Administrative Share for more information.

Setting up Shared Folders Snap-in in MMC

1. Go to Start> Run
2. Type mmc and click OK. The MMC window will open right afterwards.
3. Go to File> Add/Remove Snap-in...

Add Remove Snap-in

4. Scroll down in Available snap-ins: list to select Shared Folders snap-in and click Add>

Available Snap-ins

5. Type the IP address of the server you want to connect to in the Another computer field and click OK

Another computer

Adding a new Share

1. In the left pane, right-click Shares and then click New Share.... The Create A Shared Folder Wizard opens.

Create A Shared Folder Wizard

2. In the Create A Shared Folder Wizard, click Next>

3. In the Folder path field, enter the share path and click Next.

Here, we have used ‘C:’ as drive root directory in share path since in section ‘Setting up an Administrative Share in Fusion’ we configured an administrative share with ‘netname = C$’ and ‘path = /mnt/disk’. Therefore, the complete folder path will be ‘/mnt/disk/share_2’.

Folder Path

4. Enter the SMB share name and description and then click Next.

SMB Share Name

5. Select the required SMB share permission setting and click Finish.

SMB share permission setting

Deleting an existing Share

1. In the left pane, click on Shares.
2. Right-click on share you want to delete and then click Stop Sharing

Stop Sharing

3. Click Yes on the next prompt.