topic CIFS not honoring groups embedded in groups in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/CIFS-not-honoring-groups-embedded-in-groups/m-p/79413#M7159 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We have added our server admins domain group to the local Administrators group on the NetApp. The CIFS share has Administrators group full control all the way down. Trying to change permissions using my account that is in the server admins group results in access denied, but if I force our server admins group all the way down the tree, then I have no issue changing permissions! </P><P></P><P>What is going on here??</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:36:56 GMT tmmatheny 2025-06-05T05:36:56Z CIFS not honoring groups embedded in groups https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/CIFS-not-honoring-groups-embedded-in-groups/m-p/79413#M7159 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We have added our server admins domain group to the local Administrators group on the NetApp. The CIFS share has Administrators group full control all the way down. Trying to change permissions using my account that is in the server admins group results in access denied, but if I force our server admins group all the way down the tree, then I have no issue changing permissions! </P><P></P><P>What is going on here??</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:36:56 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/CIFS-not-honoring-groups-embedded-in-groups/m-p/79413#M7159 tmmatheny 2025-06-05T05:36:56Z Re: CIFS not honoring groups embedded in groups https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/CIFS-not-honoring-groups-embedded-in-groups/m-p/79418#M7160 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We had a similar issue when we changed our Domain level to 2008 from 2003. We had to change the security group to domain local for it to start working again.</P><P></P><P>Our setup is:</P><P></P><P>User group - Domain Global</P><P>Group containing the User Group - Domain Local</P><P></P><P>We had to make them both Domain Global groups.</P><P></P><P>Hope this helps</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 01 May 2014 14:31:48 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/CIFS-not-honoring-groups-embedded-in-groups/m-p/79418#M7160 UniversityOfHull 2014-05-01T14:31:48Z