FSView is a command-line utility for administering Fileshare servers. Entering the command fsview puts you into FSView mode, where you can enter a range of commands..
When you use some of the features described later in this chapter, you cannot control Fileshare interactively from the Fileshare console window. So you need to use FSView instead, most importantly for closing a Fileshare server. This section gives brief instructions on FSView, to enable you to do this.
Fileshare security is off by default. However, to use FSView you must create a password for the special user ID FSVIEW and enter this user ID and password when you connect to your Fileshare server from the FSView utility.
You specify passwords in a password file, containing a password for each user who will be connecting to the Fileshare server. You do this by running a command for each user. The first such command creates the file.
If this file contains more than one entry, specifying this file when starting a Fileshare server turns on security for that server. All clients then have to specify their user IDs and passwords when they connect. However, since for our present purpose we need only create one entry, this does not happen.