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cacls or somethign similar against CIFs shares

sequeirad — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:09:39 GMT

I need to find a way to be able to get the ACLs on CIFs shares on outr netapp filers.

We have 100s of CIFs shares and I am trying to find a quick way that I can get teh NTFS permissions on each of these shares without having to go to a windows box, mounting the share and right click each share and going to security and finding it that way.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

I have used CACLs before but it doesn't seem to work against a netapp CIFs share.

The error I get is: The network path was not found.

Even though a dir against the same share works fine

thanks for any help

Re: cacls or somethign similar against CIFs shares

sinhaa — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:08:23 GMT

Can you paste the output of the command: cacls that you are trying? Also the output of the command "cifs shares" from your hosting filer CLI?

Re: cacls or somethign similar against CIFs shares

sinhaa — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:58:42 GMT

Loking at some Microsift documentations. cacls works only on NTFS file system. You can try the Extended Change Access Control too xcacls. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754/ > you can use a batch file to get NTFS permissions on all your CIFS shrares.

I hope this helps.

Re: cacls or somethign similar against CIFs shares

aborzenkov — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:36:47 GMT

Do you need share ACLs or files ACLs? Share ACLs are shown in “cifs shares” output; and files ACLs can be listed using fsecurity command on filer.