How to use ReadyNas locally and also remotely by ReadyCloud?

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sdejesus13 wrote:

Hi again,

 

Ok, I understood all of that.  My issue is with the fact that I have email addresses associated with local user accounts and when I then try to send a ReadyCloud invite to any of those addresses, ReadyCloud gives an error and will not allow that.  So, if a person only has one email address and is a local user, there appears to be no way to send them a ReadyCloud invite.  That seems problematic.  It is totally commonplace in my company for local users to want to be able to access the same files remotely.  We do this now via Dropbox.  As it stands, I see no way to do this with the ReadyNAS/ReadyCloud combo.  That's what I am asking you for. Any suggestions?

 

I went ahead as an experiment and removed the email address from User1 of the local users via the Ready NAS admin interface.  This then allowed me to send a ReadyCloud invite to that person's email address, and they were able to use the emailed link to create a ReadyCloud registration (under a new different user name - another gotcha!) and to get access to what they were invited to.  This is a potential workaround for me.  Can you tell me what the downside to this would be?  What is the local user losing by me removing the email address associated with that local account?  Is it that notifications from the ReadyNAS will not be received?  Anything else?

 

Also, I seem to be able to change permissions only for top level folders created on the ReadyNAS. Subfolders and files in folders do not appear to have permission adjustment.  Is that true? Seems like a strange limitation compared to more familiar Windows permissions.  Am I missing something here?

 

Thanks again for your help.

Steve DeJesus

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Steve,

You can do this, the User1 username cannot be the same as their Cloud User account. That should be the only change, if the email is the same it will stills send invite to the user. I tested this on 6.4.1 this morning.

As far as permissions go, you do not have to use the permissions through the Admin interface, you can use the permissions from windows in a workgroup or domain environment. Using the Admin log in when browsing the shares will give you poweruser permissions. You will see a folder with the volume name where you  govern permissions using windows ntfs permissions.

AlexPe