Viewing CIFS permissions for users

You can view details of the effective permissions as well as the access control entries for a user on the Permissions tab.

Note:

Only the shares which have one or more access control entries related to the selected user, or has any permission entry given to the special group Everyone are available for selection on the Permissions tab.

To view the permissions assigned to a user

  1. On the Workspace tab, navigate to the Users list-view.
  2. Click a user. The Summary panel populates to display additional details.
  3. Click Expand Profile on the Summary panel to display the underlying user-centric views.

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

  4. Click Permissions. Or right-click the user in the navigation pane and select Permissions.
  5. Use the device filter in the content pane to search for specific devices where selected user has permissions. The Devices with permission filter is applied by default. The filter pane displays the list of filers or web applications that have some shares or site collections on which the selected user has permissions.

    Or, click the drop-down to select a specific type of storage device, disabled filers or web applications, or devices.

    At the share-level in the hierarchy, you can also filter the paths using other predefined filters, such as disabled shares or site collections where the user has permissions.

    A summary of the permissions that are assigned to the user on the selected share appears. It includes the following details:

    • The path at which the access control entry has been defined for the user or the group to which the user belongs.

    • The type of permissions.

    • The groups from which the user inherits the permissions.

  6. Click Effective Permissions to view the list of all the folders, on the selected share, on which the user has effective permissions.

    You can drill down the folder structure to view the permissions that are assigned to the subfolders

  7. Click Advanced permissions icon in each view to view the details of the operation that a user is allowed or denied on a given path.
  8. Click Share-level permissions to view a user's share-level permissions on a selected share.
  9. Click the Export icon at the bottom of the page to save the data to a .csv file.

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