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Non root UNIX user gets permission denied when try to access NTFS volume

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • NTFS security style volume
  • NFS

Issue

  • UNIX user (other than root) gets permission denied when trying to access NTFS volume

sudo -u <UNIX_USER_NAME> ls -al /mnt/folder/
ls: cannot open directory /mnt/folder/: Permission denied

  • In the EMS log:

Vserver: svm1 (internal ID: 6)

Error: Acquire UNIX credentials procedure failed
  [  4 ms] Entry for user-name: <UNIX_USER_NAME> not found in the current
           source: FILES. Entry for user-name: <UNIX_USER_NAME> not found in
           any of the available sources
**[     5] FAILURE: Unable to retrieve UID for UNIX user <UNIX_USER_NAME>

Error: command failed: Failed to resolve user name to a UNIX_ID. Reason: "SecD
       Error: object not found".

  •  UNIX-WIN name-mapping exist for specific UNIX user.

::> vserver name-mapping show -vserver svm

Vserver:   svm
Direction: unix-win
Position Hostname         IP Address/Mask
-------- ---------------- ----------------
1       -                 -                   Pattern: svm1
                                          Replacement: domain\\atmn

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