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Title
Secure Copy - The system cannot find the path specified error when copying to a NetAPP Filer -
Description
Secure Copy - The system cannot find the path specified error when copying to a NetAPP Filer
The following error message is displayed or in a log file when using Secure Copy to copy files to a NetAPP Filer device.
Thursday:11:42:15:669 **Error:
\\SLogicnetapp\test\files\testfile1.txt --- --- The system cannot find the path specified.
Thursday:11:42:15:685 **Error:
\\SLogicnetapp01\test\files\testfile2.txt --- The system cannot find the path specified.
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Cause
The error message only occurs when the option to “Override Security on Access Denied” is selected.
This error message indicates that the user account being used to run the copy job does not have access to the source file or folder in question. In a traditional copy process, a user must have permissions on a file or folder to copy it. If the user is denied access, they must first take ownership of the object, and then set the appropriate permissions before copying it. Secure Copy allows an administrator to perform a copy without changing any of the permissions or ownership for the objects by selecting the option to “Override Security on Access Denied”.
This error message occurs because the account being used to run the copy job is not a member of the local administrators group, and/or the local Backup Operators group, on the NetAPP Filer.
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Resolution
From the command prompt of the NetAPP Filer issue the following commands:
NetApp Prompt> useradmin domainuser add MYDOMAIN\mybackupuser -g "Backup Operators"
NetApp Prompt> useradmin domainuser add MYDOMAIN\mybackupuser -g Administrators
NetApp Prompt> cifs terminate
NetApp Prompt> cifs restart
Then run Secure Copy as the MYDOMAIN\mybackupuser to get a successful copy going.
What this does is add a particular domain user into the local filer groups called Backup Operators and Administrators. This ensures that the user doing the Secure Copy can properly set security settings on the filer CIFS shares being copied to (the destination server).