Permission denied to delete thumbs.db file

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Category:: ontap-9

Specialty:: nas

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Applies to

ONTAP 9
CIFS

Issue

CIFS share can't be deleted
thumbs.db file in share
Deletion fails

PS K:\empty> dir
Directory: K:\empty
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ -----a----
06/22/2023 13:03 0 test2.txt

PS K:\blank> dir test2.* -File -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force | Remove item

PS K:\empty> dir
PS K:\empty>

PS K:\blank> dir thumbs.db -File -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force | Remove item
Remove-Item : The item K:\empty\Thumbs.db cannot be removed: you do not have enough
Access permissions to perform this operation.
In Line:1 Character:69
+ ... .db -File -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Force | Remove item
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (K:\empty\Thumbs.db:FileInfo) [Remove-Item], IOException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : RemoveFileSystemItemUnAuthorizedAccess,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.RemoveItemCommand

Access Based Enumeration (ABE) not enabled

Share: XXXXXXXXX
                     CIFS Server NetBIOS Name: SVM-NAS
                                         Path: /svm_nas_cifs/data/XXXX
                             Share Properties: browsable
                                               show-previous-versions
                                               oplocks
                                               changenotify
                           Symlink Properties: symlinks
                      File Mode Creation Mask: -
                 Directory Mode Creation Mask: -
                                Share Comment: User data
                                    Share ACL: everyone / Full Control
                File Attribute Cache Lifetime: -
                                  Volume Name: svm_nas_cifs
                                Offline Files: manual
                Vscan File-Operations Profile: standard
            Maximum Tree Connections on Share: 4294967295
                   UNIX Group for File Create: -