AWS Storage Gateway - Refreshing Objects in Your Amazon S3 Bucket

AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Refreshing Objects in Your Amazon S3 Bucket
To limit file share access to specific AD users and groups
1. In the Storage Gateway console, choose the file share that you want to limit access to.
2. For Actions, choose Edit SMB settings to open the Edit Allowed/Denied users and groups dialog
box.
3. For Allowed users, choose Add entry and provide the list of AD users that you want to allow file
share access.
4. For Allowed groups, choose Add entry and provide the list of AD groups that you want to allow file
share access.
5. For Denied users, choose Add entry and provide the list of AD users that you want to deny file share
access.
6. For Denied groups, choose Add entry and provide the list of AD users that you want to deny file
share access.
7. When you finish adding your entries, choose Save.
Note
For users and groups, enter only the AD user or group name. The domain name is implied
by the membership of the gateway in the specific AD that the gateway is joined to.
If you don't specify valid or invalid users or groups, any authenticated Active Directory user can export
the file share.
Providing Guest Access to Your File Share
If you want to provide only guest access, your file gateway doesn't have to be part of a Microsoft AD
domain. You can also use a file gateway that is a member of an AD domain to create file shares with
guest access. Before you create a file share using guest access, you need to change the default password.
To change the guest access password
1. Open the AWS Storage Gateway console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home.
2. Choose the gateway that you want to use to join the domain.
3. For Actions, choose Edit SMB settings.
4. In the Guest access settings section, choose Set guest password, provide the password, and then
choose Save.
Refreshing Objects in Your Amazon S3 Bucket
As your NFS or SMB client performs file system operations, your gateway maintains an inventory of the
objects in the Amazon S3 bucket associated with your file share. Your gateway uses this cached inventory
to reduce the latency and frequency of S3 requests.
To refresh the S3 bucket for your file share, you can use the AWS Storage Gateway console or the
RefreshCache operation in the AWS Storage Gateway API.
To refresh objects in a S3 bucket from the console
1. Open the AWS Storage Gateway console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home.
2. Choose File shares, and then choose the file share associated with the S3 bucket that you want to
refresh.
3. For Actions, choose Refresh cache.
The time that the refresh process takes depends on the number of objects cached on the gateway
and the number of objects that were added to or removed from the S3 bucket.
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