Re: User profile for files copied into IFS via mapped drive

You shouldn't have the Guest profile enabled.
Instead, each user would prompted for the credentials first time only when accessing the mapped drive.
The IFS objects will then show who created them.

Years back, we had Guest profile enabled.
It was a security flaw, it needed to be disabled.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 4:57 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: User profile for files copied into IFS via mapped drive

Today I wanted to check and see who copied a file to the IFS using a
Windows mapped drive.  To my surprise, all files in the IFS has the same
somewhat generic (but non-IBM) user profile. With a bit more digging, I
found out where the default profile is set up.  It's the "Guest Profile"
in the IBM i NetServer service. Okay, fine.

But now the $64,000 question: can I change that behavior? Specifically I
was hoping the owner would be the user ID associated with the mapped
drive.  Evidently I was being simplistic in my thinking.  And if I
cannot change that behavior, what is the workaround?  Journal?  I hope
not, because... ewwwww. But hey, checking a journal is not the end of
the world.