topic Re: Permission on exported NFS volume - problem ... in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78423#M7106 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Pawel:</P><P></P><P>The users are writing to the volume on a PC - is there a CIFS share on the volume, or is it mounted to the PC via NFS?</P><P></P><P>If they're writing via CIFS, the group the file inherits will be the users' NFS groups, either from the filer's /etc/passwd file, or NIS/LDAP, assuming that the usermapping is properly configured.&nbsp; On the CIFS share, you can set the forcegroup option and/or one of the umask options, to ensure others can write to the files (again, with CIFS access).&nbsp; If you set the umask to 002, files written will be group writeable, which means that any other user who maps to that same unix group will be able to overwrite the file.&nbsp; If you set the forcegroup to whatever group the file gets written with, then everyone who connets will inherit that group, regardless of the group they actually connect to.</P><P></P><P>If they're writing over an NFS mount to the PC, whatever software is being used to facilitate that should have some sort of user/group/permissions configuration, which you'd have to mess around with.</P><P></P><P>Bill</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2012 22:07:08 GMT billshaffer 2012-05-16T22:07:08Z Permission on exported NFS volume - problem ... https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78420#M7105 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, I have problem&nbsp; perrmissions on the exported volume.</P><P>Volume security style is UNIX.</P><P>Two users with the same group write file to nfs share on your PC.</P><P>How to configure permissions on exported volume or storage <SPAN id="result_box" lang="en"><SPAN class="hps">to</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">all users</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">of the same group</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">can</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">read and write</SPAN></SPAN> file <SPAN id="result_box" lang="en"><SPAN class="hps">or</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">you can set</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">permissions</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">to</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">all</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">files saved</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">as the same user ID</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">and</SPAN> <SPAN class="hps">group ID ???</SPAN></SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN lang="en"><SPAN class="hps">Best Regards</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN lang="en"><SPAN class="hps">Pawel<BR /></SPAN></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:27:15 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78420#M7105 pawel_wierzbicki 2025-06-05T06:27:15Z Re: Permission on exported NFS volume - problem ... https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78423#M7106 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Pawel:</P><P></P><P>The users are writing to the volume on a PC - is there a CIFS share on the volume, or is it mounted to the PC via NFS?</P><P></P><P>If they're writing via CIFS, the group the file inherits will be the users' NFS groups, either from the filer's /etc/passwd file, or NIS/LDAP, assuming that the usermapping is properly configured.&nbsp; On the CIFS share, you can set the forcegroup option and/or one of the umask options, to ensure others can write to the files (again, with CIFS access).&nbsp; If you set the umask to 002, files written will be group writeable, which means that any other user who maps to that same unix group will be able to overwrite the file.&nbsp; If you set the forcegroup to whatever group the file gets written with, then everyone who connets will inherit that group, regardless of the group they actually connect to.</P><P></P><P>If they're writing over an NFS mount to the PC, whatever software is being used to facilitate that should have some sort of user/group/permissions configuration, which you'd have to mess around with.</P><P></P><P>Bill</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 May 2012 22:07:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78423#M7106 billshaffer 2012-05-16T22:07:08Z Re: Permission on exported NFS volume - problem ... https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78427#M7107 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, </P><P>My all volumes is mounted to the PC (linux hosts)&nbsp; via NFS. </P><P>Can I set umask 002 from the netapp storage on NFS share. </P><P>Now all files are saved with umask 022 so users who maps to the same unix group can not edit files one another.</P><P></P><P>Pawel</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 May 2012 13:21:11 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78427#M7107 pawel_wierzbicki 2012-05-23T13:21:11Z Re: Permission on exported NFS volume - problem ... https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78432#M7108 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Pawel:</P><P></P><P>To the best of my knowledge, you cannot set the umask on the NetApp side for NFS shares.&nbsp; However, from the Linux side you can set the umask of all the users in questions to 002 at login.</P><P></P><P>Bill</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 May 2012 19:38:39 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78432#M7108 billshaffer 2012-05-23T19:38:39Z Re: Permission on exported NFS volume - problem ... https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78437#M7109 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks for all Bill</P><P></P><P>Pawel</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 May 2012 09:48:30 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Permission-on-exported-NFS-volume-problem/m-p/78437#M7109 pawel_wierzbicki 2012-05-24T09:48:30Z