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Home Folders won't deploy for already created users
Model: ReadyNas 3220 Firmware: 6.10.5 Hotfix 1 Environment: Win10 20H2-21H1 | Domain I'm having an issue where after I've enabled Home Folders, already present user profiles on client machines ...
OK, so mwilliams' personal folder is assigned to user 33397, which does not exist, and group 32897, which probably doesn't either.
drwx------ 1 33397 32897 0 Jan 30 2020 mwilliams
His proper user GUID is 33988 and his group is 33281:
uid=33988(mwilliams) gid=33281(domain users)
So I think chown -R mwilliams:33281 mwilliams from the .home share should fix the problem.
If not, then chown -R 33988:33281 mwilliams.
If the first one works, then this script should do it for all:
cd /home
for dir in */; do chown -R "${dir%?}:33281" "$dir"; done
chown -R admin:admin adminI'm using the GID for the group because I'm not entirely sure how to handle the group name "domain users" with a space in it.
If you have to use the UID instead of the name to make it work, then it'll take a lot more to get that info, and it's probably easier to just do it manually unless hou have a huge number of affected users.
Are you comfortable wiith the Linux command prompt via SSH? If so, go to the home folder and see if those users' folders belong to the:
cd /home
ls -all
The listing for User1 should look like:
drwx------ 1 User1 users 22 Nov 6 2019 User1
Then go into one of the users' folders and see about the file ownership:
cd <username>
ls -all
A file should look like:
-rw-r--r-- 1 User1 users 136364 Nov 16 2010 MyPic.jpg
This is assuming your default group is users and all are a member of that group. If anything is wrong, you can use Linux commands to fix it. If you need help, come back and paste in some results and we can give you the appropriate commands. It will still take some of your time, but not nearly as much as copying the files back and forth.
If you have a whole lot of users, a command script could be written to do it all.
So, if the problem is ownership and all the users' primary group is users, then the following should fix it:
cd /home
for dir in */; do chown -R "${dir%?}:users" "$dir"; done
chown -R admin:admin admin
If you are unsure that ownership is the issue, come back and let us verify from a sample listing from the ls -all commands.
Make absolutely certain you are in the /home directory before giving the second command.
The last command sets the group for admin back to admin since the other changed it to users. If you have just a couple other users with a different primary group, then you can manually fix them like I did with admin. If you have multiple primary groups, it'll take a lot more effort to write the script.
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