Enabling or disabling caching

You can enable or disable caching to allow or prevent clients from caching files on a share.

Considerations

You can specify whether clients must manually select files for caching; and, if not, whether Data ONTAP automatically caches programs, user files, or both in accordance with client settings. By default, clients must manually select files for caching.

Step

Enable or disable caching.

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Disable caching	On the Data ONTAP command line, enter the following command: `cifs shares -change sharename -nocaching`
Enable manual caching	On the Data ONTAP command line, enter the following command: `cifs shares -change sharename -manual_caching`
Enable automatic caching of documents	On the Data ONTAP command line, enter the following command: `cifs shares -change sharename -auto_document_caching`
Enable automatic caching of programs	On the Data ONTAP command line, enter the following command: `cifs shares -change sharename -auto_program_caching`

Note: When you create a share, you can override the default caching option (-manual_caching) by specifying the -nocaching, -auto_document_caching, or -auto_program_caching option.

Parent topic: Changing the properties of a share from the Data ONTAP command line