I had a chat with a CIFS expert and one of the reasons could be this:
 
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This behavior is observed when “cifs.bypass_traverse_checking” option is disabled on the Filer and “executable” (X) permission

is not set on the sub-dirs of the Qtree.

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What version of ONTAP are talking about?

Regards,
Vinay
From: Holloway, Chris [mailto:chris.holloway@DNSArrow.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:09 AM
To: davidkmcw@gmail.com; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Weird CIFS problem

Have you checked that the security style of the qtree is set to NTFS and not unix?

Cheers
Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com <owner-toasters@mathworks.com>
To: NetApp list <toasters@mathworks.com>
Sent: Mon Jan 14 18:59:36 2008
Subject: Weird CIFS problem

I'm domain admin, and I'm accessing a share on my filer \\filer1\tdrive <file://filer1/tdrive>  (/vol/vol0/tdrive). It is a seperate qtree, the only perms on the share are everyone/ full control. I even added a domain/administrator full control entry. I can see the top level of sub-dirs, bt I cannot go any deeper.

Does this make sense, or am I missing something?

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David

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