Manage local group members

02/10/2026

Overview

You can use this API to display local group members and to add or delete local users, Active Directory users and/or Active Directory groups to a local group of an SVM.

Examples

Retrieving the members of a specific local group

# The API:
/api/protocols/cifs/local-groups/{svm.uuid}/{local_cifs_group.sid}/members

# The call:
curl -X GET "https://<mgmt-ip>/api/protocols/cifs/local-groups/2ebec9c7-28be-11eb-95f4-0050568ed0a2/S-1-5-21-256008430-3394229847-3930036330-1257/members" -H "accept: application/json"

# The response:
{
"records": [
  {
    "name": "CIFS_SERVER1\\user1"
  },
  {
    "name": "CIFS_SERVER1\\user2"
  }
],
"num_records": 2
}

Adding members to a local group

The local group members POST endpoint adds local users, Active Directory users and/or Active Directory groups to the specified local group and the SVM.

Adding local users to a group

# The API:
/api/protocols/cifs/local-groups/{svm.uuid}/{local_cifs_group.sid}/members

# The call:
curl -X POST "https://<mgmt-ip>/api/protocols/cifs/local-groups/179d3c85-7053-11e8-b9b8-005056b41bd1/S-1-5-21-256008430-3394229847-3930036330-1001/members" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "records": [ { "name": "user1" }, { "name": "user2"} ] }'

Deleting local users from the local group of a specific SVM

Example

Delete the local users 'user1' and 'user2' from the specified local group

# The API:
/api/protocols/cifs/local-groups/{svm.uuid}/{local_cifs_group.sid}/members

# The call:
curl -X DELETE "https://<mgmt-ip>/api/protocols/cifs/local-groups/179d3c85-7053-11e8-b9b8-005056b41bd1/S-1-5-21-256008430-3394229847-3930036330-1001/members" -H "accept: application/json" -d '{ "records": [ { "name": "user1"}, { "name": "user2"} ] }'