What kind of users can access data in ONTAP 9 using CIFS?

Applies to

• Clustered ONTAP 8.0 to 8.3
• ONTAP 9.0 and later
• CIFS/SMB

Answer

As per default settings, the type of users that can access data using CIFS are:

• The users that are a part of the same domain as the CIFS SVM.
• The users that are a part of a trusted domain. The list of trusted domains can found using the command:

cluster::> vserver cifs domain trusts show

• Users that are a part of CIFS local-users or local-groups. The list of such users can be found using the command:  

cluster::> vserver cifs users-and-groups local-user show
cluster::> vserver cifs users-and-groups local-group show

Additional Information

NA