Before you try to run a Fileshare Server, you must ensure that Fileshare is available on the server machine.
You must run Fileshare commands from the command prompt.
To start a Fileshare Server, enter the following:
fs /s server-name
where server-name names the server, and corresponds to the ID by which the client region knows the server. The /s parameter is mandatory on each Fileshare command. For a list of valid parameters, see the section Using a Fileshare Server Configuration File.
This command starts a server with the default protocol enabled, and with no password-checking performed when a client tries to access the server. The default protocol is TCP/IP. You can use the /cm switch to explicitly name the protocols to be used. For example:
fs /s fstest /cm ccitc32 /cm ccinb32
In this example, ccitc32 and ccinb32 are the CCI modules required for TCP/IP and NetBIOS, respectively.
The following example starts a server with password-checking applied through the file fs.pwd:
fs /s fstest /cm ccitc32 /pf fs.pwd
The section Using a Fileshare Password File explains how password-checking works.
You can avoid specifying a list of parameters whenever you start the server by creating a Fileshare Server configuration file, as the next section explains.