This is described in the security FAQ on NOW:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/olio/guides/53_troubleshooting/faq. shtml#anchor1392387
"Why is the UNIX owner of files I create set to "root"? For CIFS clients that happens in two cases:
1. The mapped user actually is root.
2. The mapped user is mapped by the 'wafl.default_unix_user' option. Since all users mapped that way use the same UNIX identity, they should not be allowed to have owner privileges from UNIX on files created by other default-mapped users. The filer makes the UNIX owner 'root' to enforce this. If individual control is desired separate UNIX users should be created."
As explained by others, in case "1" above your CIFS user may be mapped to root because of an entry in usermap.cfg, or it may be because of the wafl.nt_admin_priv_map_to_root option.
Mark Muhlestein -- mmm@netapp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Talvinder (Ricky) Chawla [mailto:ricky@laurelnetworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 2:38 PM To: 'toasters@mathworks.com' Subject: CIFS problem....
Does anyone know why if you are a domain admin and you write a file via cifs, the file gets saved as owner root. Is there a way to fix this ???
Ricky Chawla Laurel Networks, Inc.
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Muhlestein, Mark