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AFS and NFS permission problems
This is regarding a Netgear RNDP2000-100NAS. The NAS is on a predominantly UNIX network. The primary type of share that I need to use is NFS. I created a share on the NAS and added NFS, AFS, and (for one windows system) CIFS shares.
Over the weekend I copied the better part of 3TB of data to the box. Partway through I realized that I'd forgotten to set the UID of the account I was using to copy the data over properly. Rather than start over, I figured that I would finish the copy, add another user to the same group as the first user (so there would be at least one other active account that had access to the data), delete the original user account and recreate it with the correct UID. Following that I could change the owner to the account with the new UID.
I found that after I deleted the original user however, the AFS and NFS services for the share that I created were hosed. I can access the data I copied (through the account with the new UID and the temporary account) over CIFS, but NFS and AFS are now greyed out for that share. I've tried disabling and reenabling both services and rebooting the NAS box. No values appear in the configuration for either service (ip address, username, or group name). The default access is set to disabled for both services. If I try entering in the appropriate values and click on save they instantly vanish and the two services remain greyed out. I created a new share and NFS and AFS work fine for it.
I thought to try just moving the data from the old share to the new share over CIFS, but rather than just move the files on the NAS box it tries to copy the data from the NAS box to the system I'm accessing it on, and back to the NAS box (Basically I'd be starting the original copy process all over again).
Does anyone have any ideas on how to reenable NFS and AFS access?
Over the weekend I copied the better part of 3TB of data to the box. Partway through I realized that I'd forgotten to set the UID of the account I was using to copy the data over properly. Rather than start over, I figured that I would finish the copy, add another user to the same group as the first user (so there would be at least one other active account that had access to the data), delete the original user account and recreate it with the correct UID. Following that I could change the owner to the account with the new UID.
I found that after I deleted the original user however, the AFS and NFS services for the share that I created were hosed. I can access the data I copied (through the account with the new UID and the temporary account) over CIFS, but NFS and AFS are now greyed out for that share. I've tried disabling and reenabling both services and rebooting the NAS box. No values appear in the configuration for either service (ip address, username, or group name). The default access is set to disabled for both services. If I try entering in the appropriate values and click on save they instantly vanish and the two services remain greyed out. I created a new share and NFS and AFS work fine for it.
I thought to try just moving the data from the old share to the new share over CIFS, but rather than just move the files on the NAS box it tries to copy the data from the NAS box to the system I'm accessing it on, and back to the NAS box (Basically I'd be starting the original copy process all over again).
Does anyone have any ideas on how to reenable NFS and AFS access?
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- scaanjoon - as an NFS/AFP user, maybe I can help
Overall, I don't see that you have done any thing wrong. Unfortunately the problem you report (Cannot enable AFP/NFS for share) has been seen many times before, however there has never been any resolution posted on this forum.
Therefore, your idea of moving the data to a share that works is probably the best and it is possible to mount the NAS such that you can move data between shares
There is a hidden share that is only accessible to the admin user called simply 'c' - you can mount this from a mac over cifs as smb://admin@<nas ip address>/c and entering your Frontview password when requested. Within that share all of the shares you have defined will appear as sub-folders and you can drag and drop data to move it between those subfolders/shares. Be careful not to remove the subfolders with the same name as your shares as those really are the user defined shares - removing them could cause frontview issues, but you can remove unnecessary shares once data has been moved via the Frontview interface. - Sphardy,
Thank you! I didn't know that the NAS let you mount the entire device this way. It worked perfectly. I still don't understand how it got fubar in the first place but I know how to fix it if it happens again. :)
Cheers!
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