AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Creating a File Share
2. Choose
Cache
for the disk you want to configure as cache storage.
If you don't see your disks, choose
Refresh
.
3. Choose
Save and continue
to save your configuration settings.
Next Step
Creating a File Share
In this section, you can find instructions about how to create a file share. You can create a file share that
can be accessed using either the Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
When you create an NFS share, by default anyone who has access to the NFS server can access the NFS
file share. You can limit access to clients by IP address.
For SMB, you can have one of three different modes of authentication:
• A file share with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) access. Any authenticated Microsoft AD user gets
access to this file share type.
• An SMB file share with limited access. Only certain domain users and groups that you specify are
allowed access (white listed). Users and groups can also be denied access (black listed).
• An SMB file share with guest access. Any users who can provide the guest password get access to this
file share.
Note
File shares exported through the gateway for NFS file shares support POSIX permissions. For
SMB file shares, you can use Access Control Lists (ACLs) to manage permissions on files and
folders in your file share. For more information, see
Using Microsoft Windows ACLs to Control
Access to an SMB File Share (p. 307)
A file gateway can host one or more file shares of different types. You can have multiple NFS and SMB
file shares on a file gateway.
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