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Readycloud services termination
Hi, With regarding to the readycloud service termination , How would this impact to the user setup at readycloud ? Currently I have user setup under cloud user (not local user). Thanks in ad...
PaulLin wrote:With regarding to the readycloud service termination , How would this impact to the user setup at readycloud ?
Currently I have user setup under cloud user (not local user).
You will need to change to local user accounts (which will need different names). If you use the home folders, the content in those folders will need to be moved.
thanks Stephen, Do you mean I have to relocate all the exisitng homeholder conent since all the cloud user home folder will be removed?
Thank in advance for yoru reply
PaulLin wrote:
Do you mean I have to relocate all the exisitng homeholder conent since all the cloud user home folder will be removed?
I don't think the current cloud user folders will actually be removed from the NAS.
But your users won't be able to access the NAS using their cloud credentials. So the contents will have to be moved to their new user accounts.
This is a bit tricky to do, due in part to the ACL that is applied to the home folders. Another complication is that the home folder is normally created the first time a user connects to the NAS using SMB.
One option is to have each user copy their folder to their PC before you shift to the local user accounts, and have them upload it to the newly created folders. Optionally they can remove any files they no longer care about.
You can also do this for each user when you create their new account - copying their current folder to a PC (or a temporary share) using your admin credentials. Then you can log in from Windows using the new account credentials, and upload the folder contents.
A PITA either way.
If you are comfortable with SSH and the Linux command line, then moving personal folder content is a lot easier. The ReadyNAS-specific command mkhomedir_helper will allow you to create a home folder (after you've created the user) without the user having to log in and you can easily move the contents and change their ownership from the command line. To move contents from OldUser to NewUser, after you've created local user NewUser as member of the users group in the GUI:
mkhomedir_helper NewUser
mv /home/Olduser/* /home/NewUser
chown -R NewUser:users /home/NewUser/*
Then you can delete user OldUser. Since I don't use ReadyCloud, I'm not sure how one does that. But you may need to get it done before ReadyCloud goes down.
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