Windows Server 2012 : Provisioning and managing shared storage (part 5) - Provisioning SMB shares - Creating general-purpose SMB shares

To create a new general-purpose SMB share on a volume using Server Manager, perform the following steps:

Figure 8. You can right-click on volume E to create a new share on the volume.

You can also use Windows PowerShell to create new general-purpose SMB shares on a volume. For example, you could start by using the New-Item cmdlet to create a local folder named E:\Shares\Archived Content for your new share:

PS C:\> New-Item -Path "E:\Shares\Archived Content" -ItemType Directory

    Directory: E:\Shares

Mode                LastWriteTime     Length  Name
----                -------------     ------  ----
d----               8/20/2012         8:55 PM Archived Content

You could then use the New-SmbShare cmdlet to create a new share named Archive Share that maps to the local folder and assign the shared folder permission Change to the CONTOSO\Sales group as follows:

PS C:\> New-SmbShare -Name "Archive Share" -Path "E:\Shares\Archived Content" `
-ChangeAccess CONTOSO\Sales

Name               ScopeName      Path                        Description
----               ---------      ----                        -----------
Archive Share      *              E:\Shares\Archived Content

If you later decide you want to enable access-based enumeration on your new share, you could use the Set-SmbShare cmdlet to do it like this:

PS C:\> Set-SmbShare -Name "Archive Share" -FolderEnumerationMode AccessBased `
-Confirm:$false

The –Confirm:$false portion of the preceding command suppresses the “Are you sure you want to perform this action?” confirmation prompt that the Set-SmbShare cmdlet usually displays.

You can then use the Get-SmbShare cmdlet to verify that access-based enumeration has been enabled on the share:

PS C:\> Get-SmbShare -Name "Archive Share" | select FolderEnumerationMode | fl

FolderEnumerationMode : AccessBased