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AndrewMayes
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Jan 07, 2016
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Folders and files out of sync [RN104]

I purchased a ReadyNAS 104 a couple of months ago and have been using it without much of an issue, however I recently noticed something quite strange. When copying certain files and folders to the NAS remotely using ReadyCloud, they sometimes do not appear on some clients. Some things I have noticed are that they will always appear on the computer that has uploaded them, on the mobile app and on the web interface, however accessing the share over the local area network (SMB) or on other remote clients using the readycloud desktop app for Windows will often not show certain files and folders which have been recently copied to the share from remote clients. The files are evidently on the NAS as they appear when accessing it as root, however there seems to be some strange permissions bug which neglects to show files in some cases. This is quite a serious problem for me as I had been using the ReadyNAS across multiple devices both remotely and locally to maintain a current set of folders.

 

I am currently connecting from a Linux machine via SMB and have noticed that by trying to access the files/folders directly which do not appear I get a 'permission denied' error, however typing a file path which simply does not exist gives a different 'file not found' error. This leads me to believe there is something strange happening with file permissions on the NAS.

 

Technical information:

Device: ReadyNAS RN10400 running ReadyNAS OS: 6.4.1

Clients: 3xWindows 10 remote clients, 1xWindows 10 local client, 2xXubuntu 14.04 local clients, 2xAndroid 5.0 clients (local and remote).

ReadyCLOUD desktop client version: 1.9 ReadyCLOUD mobile client version: 1.2.2

 

Note that in the above example, the files in question were all uploaded from remote clients using the Windows desktop version of ReadyCLOUD. All the clients are accessing the same share with the same login credentials. The files are also being manually copied to the ReadyNAS share, the 'sync' feature is not used.

  • I have found a solution to this problem, by logging into the admin page, then going to shares>settings>file access>reset and clicking the 'reset permissions' button and then resetting the file permissions to the previous setting. This seems to sort out the issues I was having with it. The underlying problem that caused this however has not been fixed, I had 'folder owner' checked for read/write access as well as the actual share owner for good measure which now works after resetting the permissions but seemed to be causing issues before. I suspect the file permissions got improperly applied, translated or corrupted when using one of the ReadyCLOUD remote clients.

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  • JennC's avatar
    JennC
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hello AndrewMayes,

     

    It may be best you contact support center so they can have a look remotely while you access and show them what's happening. You still have a free support since this will be your first valid contact to them, take advantage of it while it still available so it can be escalated if needed.

     

    Regards,

  • I have found a solution to this problem, by logging into the admin page, then going to shares>settings>file access>reset and clicking the 'reset permissions' button and then resetting the file permissions to the previous setting. This seems to sort out the issues I was having with it. The underlying problem that caused this however has not been fixed, I had 'folder owner' checked for read/write access as well as the actual share owner for good measure which now works after resetting the permissions but seemed to be causing issues before. I suspect the file permissions got improperly applied, translated or corrupted when using one of the ReadyCLOUD remote clients.

    • BrianL2's avatar
      BrianL2
      NETGEAR Employee Retired

      Hi AndrewMayes,

       

      Which option is selected as the Folder Owner/Group? If you will set it to Guest and try to upload some files. Is there any difference?

       

       

      Kind regards,

       

      BrianL
      NETGEAR Community Team

  • BrianL,
    I have selected the share user as the folder owner and group as 'users' as with my other shares. I did notice the ReadyCLOUD users were greyed out under file access but I assume that gets handled automatically anyway. When resetting it, it did set permissions to guest but after switching back to the previous settings it is now working fine. I cannot do anything to replicate the problem but I highly suspect it is not a configuration issue as it only occurred with certain folders from remote ReadyCLOUD clients which now does not exhibit this problem.

    I have several other shares also with similar settings but different users and a similar amout of remote/local clients but have not had any issues with these as far as I'm aware. It could have just been a random glitch that occurred when handling file permissions that hopefully won't occur again but searching the internet returned several other forum posts with people experiencing similar issues.

    I'll keep you updated if this problem occurs again in the future.
    • BrianL2's avatar
      BrianL2
      NETGEAR Employee Retired

      Hi AndrewMayes,

       

      Thanks for the detailed information that you have provided. I will probably check those similar posts that you've mentioned in the community. If in case it happens again, please do take advantage of the free technical assistance from our support team to raise this issue.

       

       

      Kind regards,

       

      BrianL
      NETGEAR Community Team

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