SMB Shares

A share makes a directory accessible to SMB clients on the network. Each share is identified by a name. An SMB client sees only the share name, not the server's path to the shared directory.

Note:

A share and a directory are independent entities. Removing a share does not affect the underlying directory.

Shares are commonly used to provide network access to home directories on a network file server. Each user is assigned a home directory. A share is persistent and remains defined regardless of whether users are connected to the server.

The SMB server provides a special kind of share called an autohome SMB share. An autohome share is a transient share of a user's home directory that is created when a user logs in and removed when the user logs out.

When a user browses the system, only statically defined shares and the user's autohome share will be listed.