Unity VSA - Citrix roaming profiles

Question

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?

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

Hi Dave, Are you trying to set the permissions in Windows? Which Windows version is it?

DaveS166 · Answer

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.

DELL-Josh Cr · Answer

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.

DaveS166 · Answer

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 ?

DELL-Sam L · Answer

Hello DaveS166, Here is a link to a KB that explains about Access Based Enumeration & how to configure it. https://dell.to/2MW9nmQ

Rainer_EMC · Answer

when you go through the C$ share you always see the disk structure and not shares

Rainer_EMC · Answer

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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