I agree that the output formatting of some of the netapp utilities is pretty bad for scripting. 
 
We don't have spaces in any of our share paths.  My group creates the shares and we always say no to requests for paths with spaces.
 
The only thing I can think of is to parse the cifsconfig_share.cfg file in the etc directory.  Share names, paths and descriptions are quoted, so the spaces in the paths shouldn't be a problem.  The ACL's in that file are given as SID's.  I have a unix background, is there a windows utility to convert the SID to a name? 
 
You could get the share names and paths from the cifsconfig_share.cfg file and the permissions from the "cifs shares" output which is probably what I would do in your situation.  Easy to do in perl, I don't know about vbscript.
 
Jeff.

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jon Hill
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:40 PM
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Subject: Cifs ACL reporting

We have a requirement to audit our cifs share security on a monthly basis.  For my windows servers I use a vbscript leveraging WMI and the Win32_LogicalShareSecuritySetting.

The filers don't respond to the WMI calls, so I thought I'd use plink to execute a cifs shares command.  The problem is the formatting of the output of that command is atrocious - basically machine-unreadable.  If I grep for "Domain Users," for example, I miss the shares that the group has access to.  Plus the description field is usually separated from the path by a single space, which means there's no way for a script to tell where the path ends and the description begins (our paths include spaces).  FilerView produces exactly the same output.

I thought DFM might help but after reviewing the documentation it doesn't look like it applies.

Has anyone come up with a good way to generate a useful (preferably tab-delimited) report on a filer's share permissions?  If not I can ignore the description and path fields and kludge together the output I need.  I was just hoping for a better way.