CIFS share not accessible by user even with share permission Everyone - full control

Applies to

• ONTAP 9
• CIFS/SMB Share with UNIX security style

Issue

• User not able to access the CIFS/SMB share even with the share permission as Everyone - Full control.
• Whenever user tries to access the share, it prompts for password.
• After providing the password, "Access Denied" error is displayed.
• Security style of the volume/Qtree on which the share was created is UNIX.
• Below error is seen when vserver services unix-user show -vserver <vs> -user <user> is run.

         Vserver: vs
       User Name: user
         User ID: 3xxx
Primary Group ID: x0
User's Full Name:
 Reason
 ------------------------------
 Access is denied by UNIX
 permissions while opening
 existing file or directory.
 Access is not granted for:
 "Synchronize", "Write DAC",
 "Read Control", "Execute",
 "Read EA", "Read"

• Only root user and group have access

::> file-directory show -vserver SVM -path /vol/share_name
  (vserver security file-directory show)

                Vserver: SVM
              File Path: /vol/share_name
      File Inode Number: 64
         Security Style: unix
        Effective Style: unix
         DOS Attributes: 10
 DOS Attributes in Text: ----D---
Expanded Dos Attributes: -
           UNIX User Id: 0                        
          UNIX Group Id: 0
         UNIX Mode Bits: 770
 UNIX Mode Bits in Text: rwxrwx---
                   ACLs: -