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Need urgent Access to data on CIFS share after a Domain crash

Andreas_Eckert — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:53:52 GMT

Dear All,

i have a urgent problem after a full AD domain crash we do not have ano longer access to data on CIFS shares of our vFilers

I created already local uses on netapp vilfer and added them to admiistrator group and set the rights on the share but still no access

I even removed the vfiler with cifs setup out of domain and set to wrokgroup but still no access

Any idea how i can quickly get access to data on share?

ONTAP 8.2.3P5 7-Mode

Thx for your hekp

Andreas

Re: Need urgent Access to data on CIFS share after a Domain crash

mbeattie — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:41:48 GMT

Hi,

Ideally the solution will be to resolve the issue with Active Directory but in the interim if just need access to some data on your CIFS share and want to make it available as read only you could:

flexclone the volume
create a CIFS share to the flexclone volume
set the CIFS Share ACL to read only to prevent changes within the flexclone volume.
take ownnership of the data and apply permissions to whoever needs access to read it

Hope you resolve your AD issues sooner than the time it would take to do that.

/Matt