VNX-for-file for Dummies

(I assume you are using Windows 7/XP workstation)

Right click on my computer > Manage, right click on "Computer Management (Local)" and select "Connect to another computer".  Select Another Computer and enter your CIFS server name. Once connected navigate to System Tools where you will Local Users and Group, Shared Folder ..etc, pretty much the same thing you would see on a traditional windows machine. Here you can manage local groups, share permissions etc.

Yes, it is.

is the CIFS server joined to active directory ?

yeah, by default "Domain Admins" group get added to the local Administrators group on the CIFS server. But if you change this parameter, any future CIFS servers will be joined to AD with your account added to the local group.

server_param server_2 -facility cifs -modify djAddAdminToLg -value 1

Ahhh thanks, got it!

Now I have to ask my Windows team since my user doesn't have the correct permissions.

If I want to add the UID for my user in AD into the local administrators group of the cifs server, how can I do? thanks!

i guess i am not sure what you are trying to do, why are you trying to add the UID and not just the AD account ?

steps that i outlined above

Maybe I'm a bit lost again. The cifs server was already created 6 months ago. Now, I don't have any user with admin rights on it since the one who had was deleted from AD as he left the company.

Now my question is: how can "promote" my AD user as administrator on the already existing cifs server on VNX without re-creating a new one?

Thanks.

ask your Domain Admins to connect to the CIFS server (steps i provided above) and add your account to the local admin group. If Domain Admins were removed from that group you are SOL, i don't know of of a command that would allow un-authorozied user to modify local admin group membership.

My domain admins finally did so and I'm now able to list/browse all the shares, create and delete files, assign ad-hoc permissions to any sub-directory. Thanks for your help!