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find the path of a specific file

grocanar — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:40:05 GMT

I suspect some permissions acces on a file in a cifs server.

I would like to check the effective access on the netapp with the command

vserver security file-directory show-effective-permissions

but i don't find a way to find the path of the file.

It s a really old old file with some strange charset on the name.

I can't use the cifs share to do that as there s a lot of cross domain and nested groups involved. Then i don't reallt know on which groups this user is member off

I can access the file on the explorer of system explorer. But i don't find a way there to either

- get the path i would able to paste in the cli command

- find if a specific user has acces to this file or not.

At the end i didn't find a way to list the content of a volume from the cli

Does someone know how i can espace from this trap?

Re: find the path of a specific file

dbenadib — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:21:21 GMT

Hi,

Which ONTAP version it is ? since ONTAP 9.7 you can list files from GUI or RESTApi

If it is older, using ls under node can help

HTH

Re: find the path of a specific file

grocanar — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:47:08 GMT

thanks your answer
i m on 9.13.1P6

I wish i would be able to use ls but i can 't.

the probleme with the REST API and with the GUI is that i can"t run the command
vserver security file-directory show-effective-permissions

or equivalent one.
That s my problem

Re: find the path of a specific file

dbenadib — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:55:43 GMT

For me it is working properly :

Re: find the path of a specific file

grocanar — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:06:59 GMT

It could work for me too if i can find the path of the file.
I have a problem of encoding for the file.
when i scan with xcp i got the following output
bureautique/Produits chimiques Ier Ã©tage/FDS/CoenzymeA sodium salt hydrate_C3144_files/ec.js

I guess this file use a wrong encoding for the path

Re: find the path of a specific file

dbenadib — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:23:24 GMT

That's why I talked about RESTApi or using the Gui to get the exact path !

Re: find the path of a specific file

grocanar — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:48:34 GMT

Well at the endi found the good way to cut and paste the path and the filename from the GUI.
it was a bit tedious but it works

thank for your help