Walkthrough - Securing a Fileshare Server

Here is a brief walkthrough to demonstrate FSView. In the following, you create the password file, start a Fileshare server, and then use the FSView utility to close it.

  1. At an application command prompt, in your Fileshare directory, enter:
    fs -pf pass.dat -u FSVIEW -pw Meryton
    Note: Long usernames and passwords that contain spaces must be surrounded with double quotes. In addition, if the username or password contains a double quote then you must escape it by adding an extra double quote immediately after.

    This creates a password file called pass.dat, containing an entry for the user ID FSVIEW with password Meryton. The contents of this file are encrypted for secrecy.

    User IDs and passwords are case-sensitive.

    Note that the Fileshare server does not start, because you have not specified the -s parameter.

  2. To start a Fileshare server, enter:
    fs -s server1 -pf pass.dat -sc
  3. At an application command prompt, still in the Fileshare directory, enter:
    fsview

    You now see the FSView command prompt.

  4. Give your logon credentials by entering the FSView command:
    admin logon FSVIEW Meryton
  5. To connect FSView to your Fileshare server and send the server your logon credentials, enter:
    server set server1
  6. To close the server, enter:
    server shutdown

    The server does not close yet. This command does not take effect until you exit from FSView.

  7. To close FSView, enter:
    exit

    FSView and the Fileshare server both close.