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prohibit deleting qtree's from cifs

ERKANAKSOY — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:16:19 GMT

Hello,

We are using ONTAP 8.2 7-Mode. I need to prohibit CIFS users deleting qtree's where users have MODIFY right.

Is there any way to achieve this from ONTAP side?

Thanks.

Re: prohibit deleting qtree's from cifs

Husky — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:18:43 GMT

Use special NTFS permissions. You can apply a special NTFS permission at the root of the qtree so that users can only view/nevigate/create files/subfolders. Then add modify permissions to the subfolders under the qtree. You don't have to break NTFS permission's inheritance between the qtree and subfolders.

Re: prohibit deleting qtree's from cifs

ERKANAKSOY — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:39:00 GMT

I am actually looking for a solution from NetApp side.

Re: prohibit deleting qtree's from cifs

francoisbnc — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:59:57 GMT

You can handle these operations with storage-level security configuration using fsecurity command.

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/secedit/ can be used for generate configuration file.

TR-3596 for documentation guide

François