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CONTAP-90483: "Access Denied" to CIFS share of a SnapMirror destination with native Fpolicy enabled

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Issue

  • Clients encounter Access Denied when trying to access a CIFS share
  Windows cannot access share You do not have permission to access "\\share" contact your network administrator to request access
  • The share path points to the root of the volume
  • A sectrace shows access is denied by FPOLICY
::*> vserver security trace trace-result show -vserver svm1-dr
Vserver: svm1

Node            Index Filter Details             Reason
--------------- ----- -------------------------- ------------------------------

node-01          1     Security Style:  -         Access is denied by the
                                                                FPolicy native policy.
                      Protocol: cifs
                      Volume: -
                      Share: Share
                      Path: /volume
                      Win-User: DOMAIN\AdminUser
                      UNIX-User: root
                      Session-ID: 123456789

  • The volume is a DP volume and the destination of currently synced SnapMirror relationship
  • Native Fpolicy is enabled, blocking OPEN events on files with * specified on the -file-extensions-to-include configuration
  • The user should otherwise be allowed access based on file permissions, share permissions, and export policies

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