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slavrenz
Aspirant
Feb 02, 2020

Read/Write permission for "SMB" vs. "File Access"?

I'm unclear about the difference between read/write permission for "SMB" vs. for "File Access". I have a share that I connect to via SMB, and to which I want to add new files. I thought adding read/w...
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slavrenz
Aspirant
Feb 03, 2020

This is helpful, thank you; yes, I suppose my expectation was for Netgear to enable read/write file access to everyone by default (using only the connection protocol to manage access).

 

Just so I'm sure I get this: so if I have read/write file access enabled, but read-only access for SMB, I still wouldn't be able to write files to the SMB share, correct? I would also need to enable read/write access for SMB?

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 03, 2020
slavrenz wrote:

if I have read/write file access enabled, but read-only access for SMB, I still wouldn't be able to write files to the SMB share, correct? I would also need to enable read/write access for SMB?

Correct.

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