Viewing CIFS permissions on folders

You can view the details of effective permissions, Access Control List for folders, and the share-level permissions on folders on the Permissions tab.

To view the permissions on folders

  1. From the Workspace navigate to the Data Sources list view.
  2. Expand a filer or Web application to display a list of configured shares or site collection.
  3. Expand a share or site collection to view the folders, sites, document libraries, or picture libraries present within the share or the site collection.
  4. Click a folder. The Summary panel populates to display additional details.
  5. Click Expand Profile on the Summary panel to display the underlying folder-centric views.

    By default, the Overview tab displays the a summary of the selected data repository.

  6. Click Permissions. Or right-click the folder and select Permissions.

    Data Insight displays a list of users and groups and details of permissions associated with them for the selected folder. By default, Data Insight displays the effective permissions for various users and groups on that folder.

    If a user group has permissions on the folder, you can also view the details of the number of users who are direct members of the group, or have inherited the membership of the group from a parent group

  7. Click the Include share level permissions check box to include share-level permissions when computing effective permissions.
  8. Click File System Access Control List to view a list of all the users or groups, who have an Access Control Entry (ACE) defined on that folder. The ACE can be inherited or explicitly defined.
  9. Click Share-level permissions to view a user's or a group's share-level permissions.
  10. Click Advanced permissions, in each sub-tab, to view the details of the operation that a user or a group is allowed or denied on that folder.
  11. Click the Export icon at the bottom of the page to save the data to a .csv file.

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