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Unity VSA - Citrix roaming profiles
We have a UnityVSA running 5.0.6.0.5. I want to create two folders for our Citrix environment. One for the roaming profiles and the other for redirected folders. I did this on our previous NAS and it worked great. One thing Microsoft recommends is to end the directories with a $ to hide the shares. Mine are Profiles$ and HomeDir$. When I do this I cannot get to the folders to apply the permissions needed. I would usually go to windows explorer and type in \\NASSERVER\C$ and it would list the root folders. Then I would go into the root folder and see the shared folders. However, I cannot see them if I put the $ at the end of the share name. I can access the shares through windows explorer by going to \\NASSERVER\Profiles$. But I'd like to go to the root folder to apply permissions and have them propagate to the sub folders. Anyone do this before? ANyone have any ideas?
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Posted March 3rd, 2021 17:00
Hi Dave,
Are you trying to set the permissions in Windows? Which Windows version is it?
I am using windows 10 set SMB share permissions. I am using windows 10 to access the UnityVSA SMB shares. When I go to C$ I see the two file systems I created. Under the Profiles file system are the two SMB shares i mentioned earlier. When I go into the Profiles file system I cannot see the two SMB shares.
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Posted March 4th, 2021 14:00
Are you using a domain admin account? https://dell.to/3bhnigQ you may want to try the workaround even if you version is new enough to have the fix.
I figured it out. I setup a folder on the file system called Profiles and another called Homedir. Then I added the SMB share to each folder. So I can setup permissions on the folder instead of the share like I was trying to do. However, the permissions are not setting the owner correctly. The owner is showing as Administrators instead of the user. I disabled inheritance and setup the correct ACL's according to Microsoft documentation. Is there something I have to do in Unisphere? What does "Access Based Enumeration" do ?
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Posted March 11th, 2021 07:00
when you go through the C$ share you always see the disk structure and not shares
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Posted March 11th, 2021 07:00
on Windows changing ACLs isnt supposed to change the owner
if you need a different owner then either that user has to create the directory or his account needs to take ownership
unlike in Unix with Windows an Adminstrator cannot chown a file/dir to a different owner
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Posted March 8th, 2021 09:00
Hello DaveS166,
Here is a link to a KB that explains about Access Based Enumeration & how to configure it.
https://dell.to/2MW9nmQ