Unexpected removal of existing NTFS permissions when adding users/groups
Applies to
- NetApp ONTAP
- AFF-C250 (and other ONTAP-based systems)
- CIFS/SMB shares with NTFS security style
- Environments performing Active Directory domain migration
- Customers migrating data and NTFS ACLs between shares/SVMs
Issue
After migrating data and NTFS permissions (ACLs) from a source CIFS share to a destination share in a new domain, administrators observed the following behavior:
- When adding a new user or group to NTFS permissions on a subfolder (using either the Security tab or Advanced Security Settings), existing users/groups are unexpectedly removed from the Security tab.
- This issue is reproducible on the destination share only; it does not occur on the original source share.
- The root of the destination share uses explicit NTFS ACLs with inheritance disabled, similar to the source.
- Example log/behavior:
- Data and NTFS permissions copied from
\\192.168.1.102\share1(source, SVM: src_svm) to\\192.168.1.155\new_share(destination, SVM: svm-test-fs). - After copying, adding a user/group to a subfolder under /new_share removes existing ACEs for other users/groups.
- ONTAP security traces show no share-level or ONTAP configuration issues.
- Data and NTFS permissions copied from
