topic Re: Has the filer administrator the rights to acess the NFS qtree through the CIFS client in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63799#M5800 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Radek,</P><P></P><P>Thanks. </P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Terrence Lee</P><P>NetApp Global Services</P><P></P><P>NetApp</P><P>852.3605.7700 Main</P><P>852.9181.8824 Mobile Phone</P><P>terrence.lee@netapp.com</P><P>Learn how: netapp.com/guarantee</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:41:42 GMT tatlee 2009-08-05T01:41:42Z Has the filer administrator the rights to acess the NFS qtree through the CIFS client https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63780#M5796 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>IHAC created a NFS qtree with security set to 'UNIX', and only create a group of users in NFS that can access this qtree. However, when this qtree is mapped to a CIFS client, the filers local administrators have the full control on it. Is this the correct behaviour?&nbsp; How can we prevent the filers' admin accessing this NFS qtree?</P><P></P><P>The filer's administrator are the AD domain users.</P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Terrence</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:25:10 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63780#M5796 tatlee 2025-06-05T07:25:10Z Re: Has the filer administrator the rights to acess the NFS qtree through the CIFS client https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63784#M5797 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This is probably due to the option <STRONG>wafl.nt_admin_priv_map_to_root </STRONG>being set to on (which is the default).&nbsp; Setting this to off should stop this.&nbsp; It's on by default because Windows Admins expect to be able to act like an admin everywhere.&nbsp; But if you set this to off, the effect you are seeing should go away.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:08:14 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63784#M5797 adamfox 2009-08-03T15:08:14Z Re: Has the filer administrator the rights to acess the NFS qtree through the CIFS client https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63789#M5798 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Adam,</P><P></P><P>Thanks. Will try it out. </P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Terrence Lee</P><P>NetApp Global Services</P><P></P><P>NetApp</P><P>852.3605.7700 Main</P><P>852.9181.8824 Mobile Phone</P><P>terrence.lee@netapp.com</P><P>Learn how: netapp.com/guarantee</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:26:42 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63789#M5798 tatlee 2009-08-04T01:26:42Z Re: Has the filer administrator the rights to acess the NFS qtree through the CIFS client https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63794#M5799 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><PRE __jive_macro_name="quote" class="jive_text_macro jive_macro_quote"><P>This is probably due to the option <STRONG>wafl.nt_admin_priv_map_to_root </STRONG>being set to on (which is the default).</P></PRE><P></P><P>This won't help I am afraid - unless something changed since the issue has been thoroughly discussed over here:</P><P><A href="http://communities.netapp.com/thread/4163" target="_blank">http://communities.netapp.com/thread/4163</A></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:03:18 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63794#M5799 radek_kubka 2009-08-04T11:03:18Z Re: Has the filer administrator the rights to acess the NFS qtree through the CIFS client https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63799#M5800 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Radek,</P><P></P><P>Thanks. </P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P></P><P>Terrence Lee</P><P>NetApp Global Services</P><P></P><P>NetApp</P><P>852.3605.7700 Main</P><P>852.9181.8824 Mobile Phone</P><P>terrence.lee@netapp.com</P><P>Learn how: netapp.com/guarantee</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:41:42 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Has-the-filer-administrator-the-rights-to-acess-the-NFS-qtree-through-the-CIFS/m-p/63799#M5800 tatlee 2009-08-05T01:41:42Z