Using vSphere 6.5, ESXi 6.5 connected to VMFS 5, VMFS 6, and NFS datastores. I have a user that i've given the Administrator role to directly to some datastores, and for some reason I can't upload anything to any of those datastores (ISOs, etc). Trying in the Fling says "r.fileTransferEndpoints is null" in the UI, and not showing any error or attempt in the log. Trying the same in the built in Flash client doesn't give an error at all but doesn't succeed, and using the built in HTML5 client I get an Unauthorized error. Here is the log entry for that from my VCSA when trying the built in HTML5 client: 70081905 103150 200334 com.vmware.vise.vim.http.transport.FileUploadRequestHandler HTTP connection to url: https://vcsa:443/folder/New%20Text%20Document.txt?dcPath=Datacenter&dsName=Test-Datastore failed with status code: 401 and response message: Unauthorized
I do have full connectivity between the browser machine and VC, PSC, Appliance, and Hosts. Here is the interesting part: While this user has the Administrator role on this datastore directly and is having issues - my main admin user who is part of the vsphere.local\Administrators group, which has the Administrator role by default on all datastores, has no issues from the same browser machine. Also, the user is able to delete files, create folders, etc just no upload. If I take the user off and instead put their (or even the domain Users) group directly on the datastore, I can't see the datastore at all in the datastores view of the client. Alternatively, if I take the user out of their group and put them in the same group as my main user and log out and back in the web client the view doesn't change (I should be seeing every object in my inventory at this point) and I still can't upload files to any of the datastores they do have access.
Any ideas what could be the issue, or where I should look to dig further? I would think having Administrator role on the datastore would work fine, but obviously there's something else going on somewhere. Perhaps some kind of permissions caching?
