https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117686#M34089 <P>Solution Proposed in the Link worked. May i know how to enable this access for the "admin" account ..?</P> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:40:49 GMT tspardhu 2016-07-08T11:40:49Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117684#M34087 <P>We have recently deployed Hortonworks on an Azure Cluster. New Directory and Upload buttons are disabled in Ambari / HDFS Files View for an admin .. Is there any way to enable them ..?</P> Thu, 07 Jul 2016 16:36:06 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117684#M34087 tspardhu 2016-07-07T16:36:06Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117685#M34088 <P>Take a look at <A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/8051/unable-to-create-root-directory-in-hdfs.html">this</A> thread and see if the answer is relevant.</P> Thu, 07 Jul 2016 23:34:37 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117685#M34088 mkoehr 2016-07-07T23:34:37Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117686#M34089 <P>Solution Proposed in the Link worked. May i know how to enable this access for the "admin" account ..?</P> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:40:49 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117686#M34089 tspardhu 2016-07-08T11:40:49Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117687#M34090 <P>sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/admin</P><P>sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -chown -R admin:hdfs /user/admin</P> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:45:54 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117687#M34090 aervits 2016-07-08T18:45:54Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117688#M34091 <P>that one helped. thanks <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/393/aervits.html" nodeid="393">@Artem Ervits</A></P> Fri, 08 Jul 2016 20:47:08 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/New-Directory-button-is-disabled-in-ambari-for-admin/m-p/117688#M34091 tspardhu 2016-07-08T20:47:08Z