Thanks all.
Bob, thanks for the explanation. Not sure I want them in a group where they have rights to "fully administer the file"?
However, our helpdesk guys were able to create CIFS shares on the same vservers which were on 7-mode:
once migrated to cDOT they can no longer do this and their rights haven't changed. They are still able to create CIFS shares for vservers
still on 7-mode.
Matt, thanks I used that KB to create the cifs superuser for the vserver: cifs superuser create -vserver testvserver -domain LIVE -accountname testuser.
The article states that testuser which is now a superuser should now be able to create CIFS shares. I will explore WFA nest - but would like their published fix to work.
"Can users other than Domain Administrators access an MMC to a Cluster-Mode node?
Yes. To set this up, the user should be added to the vserver as a cifs superuser. This is available in advanced mode."
Example: ::> set advanced
::*> cifs superuser create -vserver vs0 -domain DOMAIN -accountname user
*> cifs superuser show -vserver testvserver
Vserver CIFS Server Domain Account Name
-------------- --------------- --------------- ------------
testvserver testv LIVE testuser
However, the above doesn't solve the problem of the helpdesk not having access to create CIFS shares.
Any ideas?