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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 (f...
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.
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.
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