https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/7-mode-Failover-and-Local-Accounts/m-p/110717#M23423 <P>We have CIFS running on FilerA witha &nbsp;failover partner FilerB. Both are Ontap 8.1. Some shares on FilerA have NTFS permissions based on local groups on Filer1 e.g. FilerA\localgroup1. During a failover scnearios where FilerB has to serve out the CIFS shares, will these local security priciples that were created on FilerA be available on filerB i.e. is local account info shared beween filers in a failover partnership?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:06:58 GMT darraghos 2025-06-04T23:06:58Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/7-mode-Failover-and-Local-Accounts/m-p/110717#M23423 <P>We have CIFS running on FilerA witha &nbsp;failover partner FilerB. Both are Ontap 8.1. Some shares on FilerA have NTFS permissions based on local groups on Filer1 e.g. FilerA\localgroup1. During a failover scnearios where FilerB has to serve out the CIFS shares, will these local security priciples that were created on FilerA be available on filerB i.e. is local account info shared beween filers in a failover partnership?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:06:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/7-mode-Failover-and-Local-Accounts/m-p/110717#M23423 darraghos 2025-06-04T23:06:58Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/7-mode-Failover-and-Local-Accounts/m-p/110722#M23424 <P>During takeover a virtual instance of partner is started (compare with vfiler). So you still have your FilerA with all its configuration including local users.</P> Wed, 07 Oct 2015 11:02:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/7-mode-Failover-and-Local-Accounts/m-p/110722#M23424 aborzenkov 2015-10-07T11:02:36Z