Re: Home directories become owned by root

Questions:

• What's the effect of changing the Default Security Style from mixed-mode to UNIX? Rephrasing, what's the effect on Windows usage?

Every file/directory has only one "real" set of permissions (either UNIX ugo or NTFS ACLs). In a UNIX qtree or volume, only the UNIX style is allowed. In Mixed, it's whichever one was set last.

Whichever one is "real", the other one is mapped as best as it can be.

So if you have files with real NTFS ACLs, you will lose those specific permissions becase they cannot be directly mapped into UNIX permissions. This may make the file access more restrictive than it would have been previously.

See this page for more info. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/olio/guides/53_troubleshooting/conc...

• Can the files still be accessed/read/write from either side by the owner, or group if group names are replicated between UNIX & AD?

The only problem would be with the group mapping. I'm not certain how well that is mapped.

• And what about a new file created from the Windows side? Will it have UNIX style permissions?

It will.

• It appears Default Security Style a per-filer option - yes?

Yes. wafl.default_security_style.