Storage systems running Data ONTAP operating system supports different types of security styles for a storage object. By default, the security style of a qtree is the same as that for the root directory of the volume.
If you change the security style of a qtree or a volume from NTFS to UNIX, the storage system disregards the Windows NT permissions that were established when the qtree or volume used the NTFS security style.
The storage system grants NFS access only if the UNIX-style permission bits allow the user access.
If you change the security style of a qtree or a volume from UNIX to NTFS, files created before the change do not have Windows NT permissions. For these files, the storage system uses only the UNIX-style permission bits to determine access.
For example, if a file currently uses the UNIX security style and a CIFS user sends a set-ACL request to the file, the file's security style is changed to NTFS. If a file currently uses the NTFS security style and an NFS user sends a set-permission request to the file, the file's security style is changed to UNIX.