How to delete orphaned cifs shares

You can do this from the CLI without too much trouble.  The command you need to review is "server_export":

[nasadmin@test-vnxcs0 ~]$ server_export --help

Error 2100: usage: server_export { | ALL }

          operations on all cifs and/or nfs entries:

        | [ -Protocol { cifs | nfs } ] -list -all

        | [ -Protocol { cifs | nfs } ] -all

        | [ -Protocol { cifs | nfs } ] -unexport [-perm] -all

          nfs operations per entry:

        | -list pathname

        | [-Protocol nfs [-name name]] [-ignore] [-option options]

          [-comment ] pathname

        | -unexport [-perm] pathname

          cifs operations per entry:

        | -list -name sharename [-option options]

        | -name sharename [-ignore] [-option options]

          [-comment ] pathname

        | -unexport -name sharename [-option options]

Here, I'll use server_export to list all the CIFS shares:

[nasadmin@test-vnxcs0 ~]$ server_export server_2 -P cifs -list

server_2 :

share "my-hws" "/my-hws" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=TEST_CIFS comment="Hyperspace Web Data"

share "my-epstmp" "/my-epstmp" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=TEST_CIFS comment="Temp EPS"

share "my-archive" "/my-archive" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=TEST_CIFS comment="Archive Data"

share "my-blob" "/my-blob" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=TEST_CIFS comment="Blob Data"

share "my-relaytmp" "/my-erelaytmp" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=TEST_CIFS comment="Temp Relay"

share "my-bodata" "/bodata" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=TEST_CIFS comment="Business Objects"

share "my-staticdata" "/my-staticdata" umask=022 maxusr=4294967295 netbios=TEST_CIFS comment="Static Data"

Now, I can unexport "my-staticdata":

[nasadmin@test-vnxcs0 ~]$ server_unexport server_2 -name3 my-staticdata cifs -option TEST_CIFS

In this case, I used the name of the CIFS server, "TEST_CIFS" as the target to unexport the share from.  If the CIFS server no longer exists on your 5300, you might try it both with and without the CIFS server.

Let us know if that helps!

Karl

Thanks Karl.  I can view all my cifs shares but when trying to delete I get "No such file or directory"

[nasadmin@1 ~]$ server_export vdm01 -unexport -name Share -P cifs -option netbios=Server

vdm01 :

Error 2: vdm01 : No such file or directory

Unshare error: Shares not unmounted

[nasadmin@1 ~]$ server_export vdm01 -unexport -name Share -option netbios=Server

vdm01 :

Error 2: vdm01 : No such file or directory

Unshare error: Shares not unmounted

[nasadmin@1 ~]$ server_export vdm01 -unexport -name Share -P cifs -option Server

vdm01 :

Error 2: vdm01 : No such file or directory

Unshare error: Shares not unmounted

[nasadmin@1 ~]$ server_export vdm01 -unexport -name Share -option Server

vdm01 :

Error 2: vdm01 : No such file or directory

Unshare error: Shares not unmounted

[nasadmin@1 ~]$ server_export vdm01 -unexport -name Share -P cifs

vdm01 :

Error 2: vdm01 : No such file or directory

Unshare error: Shares not unmounted

Solved - recreating the old CIFS server allowed me to delete the orphaned shares, thank you!

thanks for the feedback