I just noticed I neglected to 'cc' this to toasters:

-----Original Message----- From: Muhlestein, Mark Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 2:43 PM To: 'Gregory M. Paris' Subject: RE: CIFS Administrators vs file ownership

What version are you running? If it's 5.3 or greater you should turn off the wafl.nt_admin_priv_map_to_root option. See

http://now.netapp.com/knowledge/docs/olio/guides/53_troubleshooting/index.sh...

and in particular

http://now.netapp.com/knowledge/docs/olio/guides/53_troubleshooting/usermap.... l

Let me know if that helps or if you have other problems.

Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: Gregory M. Paris [mailto:paris@bose.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 2:29 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Cc: paris@bose.com Subject: CIFS Administrators vs file ownership

Toasters,

We've recently received our first filer, an F740 with NFS and CIFS. We're in the process of working out all the issues and procedures before we deploy the device.

The issue we're struggling with at the moment involves people with NT Administrator access. In the NT world, we admins are used to having accounts with Administrator access (by virtue of being Domain Admins). It never matters to us that our files get created with ownership of "Administrators".

In the UNIX world, we're used to using "su" to get root access when we need it. All of our own files are owned by our respective accounts, not root.

We intend to merge our UNIX and NT home directories, but life is not smooth for we admins. When we create files on the filer from the NT world, they're owned by Administrator; that's OK. But on the UNIX side, they show up as being owned by root; that's not.

We'd like to have our admin access cake and eat it too. In other words, what we'd like is to have our NT Administrator access, but have files get created with our respective ownerships, not root's.

How do the rest of you work this issue?

Greg