CIFS

Create Share User

• Right click My Computer

• Click Manage

• Select Local Users and Groups

• Double click users

• Click Action->New User

• Fill in the form as follows

  • User name: miseqdata
  • Full Name: MiSeq Data
  • Description: User account to access MiSeq sequencing data
  • Password: <complex password of your choice>
  • Unselect user must change password
  • Select User cannot change password
  • Select Password never expires
  • The form should look like this when filled out

  

  • Click Create

Create Share

• Open My Computer

• Open the Data(D:) drive

• Open the Illumina folder

• Right Click the MiSeqOutput folder

• Click Properties

• Click Sharing Tab

• Click Advanced Sharing

• Check ‘Share this folder’

• Leave Share Name as is

• Click permissions

• Click add

• Type in miseqdata and press ok

• Select Everyone

• Click Remove

• Ensure everything is set like this

  

• Click OK in the Permissions window

• Click in the Advanced Sharing window to create the share

Ensure the MiSeq firewall allows access to the shares

• Start

• Control Panel

• Network and Sharing Center

• Click Windows Firewall in the bottom left of the screen

• Clcik Advanced settings in the left pane

• Click Inbound Rules

• Create a new firewall rule

  • Click Action in the top menu

  • Click New Rule...

  • Click Port

  • Click Next

  • Fill out the form as follows

    

  • Click Next

  • Allow the connection

  • Click Next

  • Check Domain, Private and Public

  • Click Next

  • The name should be SMB TCP

  • Click Finish

• Repeat the steps to create a new rule except in step 5 select UDP instead of TCP and name the rule SMB UDP

• When you are finished you should have two rules that show up as follows

  

Mount CIFS in Linux

Instructions on how to mount a windows share read-only that mounts on startup. If you are unsure if a share is already mounted you can use the <pre>mount</pre> command to list all mounted filesystems

• Become super user

  su -
  

• Ensure you have cifs-utils installed

  yum install -y cifs-utils
  

• Create mount point

  mkdir -p /path/to/mountpoint
  chmod 755 /path/to/mountpoint
  

• Create credentials file

  cat <<EOF > /etc/credentials.share001
  username=share_username
  password=password_for_username
  EOF
  chmod 600 /etc/credentials.share001
  

• Create fstab entry

  cat <<EOF >> /etc/fstab
  //<windows_ip_address>/<sharename> /path/to/mountpoint  cifs    ro,credentials=/etc/credentials.share001
  EOF
  

• Mount the drive

  mount -a