HP CIFS Server Administrator's Guide Version A.03.01.04 (5900-2303), April 2012

Table 8 UNIX permission maps Windows 2000/XP client permissions
Permission Shown on Windows 2000/XP ClientsUNIX Permission
Advanced ViewBasic View
Read Attributes, Read Extended Attributes,
Read Data, Read Permissions
Readr--
Write Attributes Write Extended Attributes,
Append Data, Write Data, Read Permissions
Write-w-
Execute or Traverse Folder, Read Attributes,
Read Permissions
None--x
All Read Permissions as in the first cellRead and Executer-x
Execute or Traverse Folder
All Read Permissions as in the first cellRead, Writerw-
All Write Permissions as in the second cell
Full Control and All permission bits are tickedFull Controlrwx
NoneNo boxes are ticked---
NOTE: In the table above, the permissions labeled Advanced can be viewed from the ACL dialog
box by clicking on Advanced, then View/Edit.
For a file owner ACE, Take Ownership, Delete and Change permissions flags are shown. For a
file's owning group ACE, Take ownership permission flag is shown.
However, all permissions are ticked in both Windows ACE Advanced and Basic views if a file
permission is Full Control.
Setting permissions from Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows
7 clients
The following table shows how each Windows 2000 and Windows XP client permission is mapped
to the UNIX permission when permissions are set from a client:
Table 9 Windows 2000 and Windows XP permissions maps UNIX permissions
UNIX PermissionWindows 2000/XP
rwxFull Control
-w-Write
rwxModify
r-xRead and Execute
r--Read
r--List Folder / Read Data (Advanced)
r--Read Attributes (Advanced)
r--Read Extended Attributes (Advanced)
r--Read Permissions (Advanced)
-w-Create Files / Write Data (Advanced)
-w-Create Folder / Append Data (Advanced)
-w-Write Attributes (Advanced)
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