Patent ID: 7668881

Claim:
A computer implemented method for associating first attributes of a first protocol with a file, the file previously generated on a storage system and associated with second attributes of a second protocol, the method comprising: receiving, over a computer network, a request for the first attributes of the file using the first protocol; in response to determining that the first attributes of the file do not exist, obtaining the second attributes associated with the file by a server of the first protocol having a server domain name, generating a new name for the first attributes of the first protocol by using the domain name of the server of the first protocol associated with the received request as a domain portion of the new name and a user identifier of the second attributes of the second protocol obtained by the server of the first protocol as a relative identifier of the new name; generating a new group name for the first attributes of the first protocol by using the domain name of the server of the first protocol associated with the received request as a domain portion of the new group name and a group identifier of the second attributes of the second protocol obtained by the server of the first protocol as a relative identifier of the new group name; and generating a new access control list for the first attributes based on permission bits of the second attributes and the new name and the new group name; and sending, in response to the received request, over a computer network, the new name in the first attributes, the new group name in the first attributes and the new access control list to a requesting client.