Scott,
 
What type is assigned to the qtree that is being shared out as CIFS?  Where is your script granting the user permissions?  On the NetApp itself?  Or from NT?
 
I have recently been setting up CIFS shares from qtrees that are "mixed".  What I have noticed is that permissions changes made on the UNIX side show up in the NT ACLs and vice versa.  I've also noticed that "Special permissions" are given in the case where the user might not be in the NT group that has been given permissions, but is in the UNIX group that owns the file/directory. 
 
Stacie Montoya
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Waters, G Scott DSTI [mailto:george.scott.waters@us.army.mil]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:32 AM
To: 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: disappearing CIFS permissions ...


Has anyone had any problems with setting CIFS share permissions and then having them disappear??

We have a series of scripts that run at night that manage our users in our NT4 domain.

Our users are created and then for each user a home share is created on our filer.  Every once in a while we will get a complaint that one of our new users can not access their home share.  I check the share and sure enough the permissions are not there.

However, when I check the output from our scripts they show that the permissions were set successfully.

The user is created in the script by using the NET USER command and the shares are manipulated by the RMTSHARE program from the NT Resource Kit.  After the user is created Domain Admins are granted permissions to the SHARE (and those permissions are always there) then the user is granted permissions (and that is where the problem occasionally occurs).

It's an annoyance that I can't explain ... and I don't like those.

If anyone has any ideas / suggestions / etc, etc ... please let me know.

Thanks.

- Scott W.