AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Creating a File Share
4. Choose
Set guest password
to enable guest access for your SMB file share.
Note
If you provide only guest access, your file gateway doesn't have to be part of an AD domain.
You can also use a file gateway that is a member of your Microsoft AD domain to create file
shares with guest access.
5. For Guest password, enter a password that meets your organization's security requirements.
6. Choose
Save
to complete the authentication.
A message at the top of the
Gateways
section of your console should appear, saying that your
gateway
Successfully joined domain
.
If the banner displays the message
Invalid domain name/DNS name cannot be resolved
,
the correct endpoint wasn't found. You might also see the error
Invalid users/Invalid
password
, an authentication failure that means that your logon was not recognized by the domain
service.
The error message
The gateway cannot connect to the specified domain
can indicate
that the quota of users has been exhausted, in other words there are no more users in the quota.
The default limit allows each user to join up to 10 systems to a domain. This error can also appear if
the user that tried to connect didn't have administrator privileges.
The error message
The specified request timed out
might indicate that there is a problem
with your firewall rules not allowing access to the domain.
In the next procedure, you create an SMB file share with either Microsoft Active Directory or guest
access. Make sure that you define the SMB file share settings for your file gateway before performing the
following steps.
To create an SMB file share
1. Open the AWS Storage Gateway console at
https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home
.
2. On the navigation pane, choose
Shares
, choose the file gateway that you want to use, and then
choose
Create file share
.
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