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Another ReadyNAS or something else?
I'm researching options for adding another NAS to our network. Because there is a 4-year-old ReadyNAS (Pro Business with 5 3TB drives) on the network, I had initially thought of simply going with anot...
Be very careful when moving away from a ReadyNAS. I was lured in by the nice glossy interface and promises of easy add-on servers and applications for the Synology NAS (DS213+, DSM4.3) and it sure looked nice and seemed to work very well during the week I tested it. The problem is when trying to set file permissions on shared folders.
The default permissions on shares is 777, just to make them work nicely with all other systems. There are no "setfacl"/"getfacl" commands, only the "synoacltool" which is undocumented.
I read as much as I possibly could on the Synology forum, posted my own question and contacted support, but nothing could really be done. The "smb.conf" the Synology uses is overwritten by secret values stored in some obscure file on every reboot, so it does not matter if you try to fix the permissions yourself, as soon as you reboot they are back to the default again.
This was the reply I got from their support department:
Since the rules you would like to setup will cause conflicts due to the privilege priority is as follow: No access > Read/Write > Read only.
- RW: users group
- NA: everyone (Please be noticed all users account belong to users group by default)
Which means everyone is NOT possible to access the shared folder include admin.
In our current design, the default shared folder permission is 777 since we also need to handle different type of permission controls across various platform (windows,Mac and Linux).
I have had a ReadyNAS Duo v1 for many years now and the share permission settings just worked the first time I configured it and has continued to work ever since... I think I understood from the manual of ReadyNAS OS 6 that the permissions are still handled the same way, maybe someone can confirm this? :)
The default permissions on shares is 777, just to make them work nicely with all other systems. There are no "setfacl"/"getfacl" commands, only the "synoacltool" which is undocumented.
I read as much as I possibly could on the Synology forum, posted my own question and contacted support, but nothing could really be done. The "smb.conf" the Synology uses is overwritten by secret values stored in some obscure file on every reboot, so it does not matter if you try to fix the permissions yourself, as soon as you reboot they are back to the default again.
This was the reply I got from their support department:
Since the rules you would like to setup will cause conflicts due to the privilege priority is as follow: No access > Read/Write > Read only.
- RW: users group
- NA: everyone (Please be noticed all users account belong to users group by default)
Which means everyone is NOT possible to access the shared folder include admin.
In our current design, the default shared folder permission is 777 since we also need to handle different type of permission controls across various platform (windows,Mac and Linux).
I have had a ReadyNAS Duo v1 for many years now and the share permission settings just worked the first time I configured it and has continued to work ever since... I think I understood from the manual of ReadyNAS OS 6 that the permissions are still handled the same way, maybe someone can confirm this? :)
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