Which of the following steps must be completed before a CIFS share can be active?

Before a CIFS share can be active, name mapping must be configured to correctly translate between Windows (SID) and UNIX (UID/GID) user identities. This ensures that users authenticating via CIFS can be properly authorized to access files and folders with appropriate permissions, especially in environments where both CIFS and NFS access might be used or where UNIX permissions are leveraged.

While both NFS and CIFS licenses are required if both protocols are to be used, licensing NFS is not a prerequisite for CIFS shares to be active, only the CIFS license is needed for CIFS functionality.

A data LIF is required for the CIFS server, but it does not necessarily need to be on every node; it needs to be on the node(s) hosting the SVM and its data volumes that will serve CIFS, and it can migrate between nodes.

Rebooting a node is generally not a standard prerequisite for activating a CIFS share; CIFS services and shares can typically be started and stopped dynamically.