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A way to extracting a list of security permissions for every share on vservers

NetApp_Journeyman — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:32:23 GMT

Hi everyone,

I was looking for a command to list of security permissions associated with each share. The standard "cifs share show -vserver * command only returns share permissions. I'd like the security permissions on the share folder itself (modify, full control, etc)

Re: A way to extracting a list of security permissions for every share on vservers

parisi — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:41:13 GMT

Have a look at page 113 of this TR:

https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4835.pdf

That lets you get permissions from ONTAP for files and folders. But it's per file or folder; not for all files at once.

For all files/folders, you'd want to use icacls or some other tool to script and query files, or find a 3rd party tool that can do that for you.

Re: A way to extracting a list of security permissions for every share on vservers

NetApp_Journeyman — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:11:56 GMT

Thank you!

Is there a way to get the size of each share btw? Without having to check properties for each share drive

Re: A way to extracting a list of security permissions for every share on vservers

parisi — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:15:39 GMT

ONTAP 9.8 provides File System Analytics, which would show that info:

https://blog.netapp.com/ontap-file-system-analytics

If you can't upgrade to 9.8, you can use XCP to do the same.

https://blog.netapp.com/xcp-data-migration-software