NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Can’t change permissions – “The parameter is incorrect”
I have three ReadyNAS Pro Business boxes on Windows Server 2003 domain.
Just noticed that there are some issues with changing permission on Windows machines. Basically if a user creates a folder and then he or an administrator tries to change some permissions (add additional user, propagate permissions to child objects, allow or disallow inheritance) this fails with error
“An error occurred applying security information to: <path/folder> The parameter is incorrect”
Or:
“Unable to save permissions changes on <foldername> The parameter is incorrect”
The same happens for the domain administrator account which was used to add ReadyNAS to a domain.
If I try to add additional user this actually works even after the error is displayed, however it doesn’t propagate down and only affects one folder.
This definitely used to work so I suspect problem occurred after one of the recent firmware updates. I am currently on 4.2.13, but the same was happened on 4.2.12 (just upgraded hoping this would sort the problem).
Also, this seems to affect only newly created folders. With old folders everything works fine.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Just noticed that there are some issues with changing permission on Windows machines. Basically if a user creates a folder and then he or an administrator tries to change some permissions (add additional user, propagate permissions to child objects, allow or disallow inheritance) this fails with error
“An error occurred applying security information to: <path/folder> The parameter is incorrect”
Or:
“Unable to save permissions changes on <foldername> The parameter is incorrect”
The same happens for the domain administrator account which was used to add ReadyNAS to a domain.
If I try to add additional user this actually works even after the error is displayed, however it doesn’t propagate down and only affects one folder.
This definitely used to work so I suspect problem occurred after one of the recent firmware updates. I am currently on 4.2.13, but the same was happened on 4.2.12 (just upgraded hoping this would sort the problem).
Also, this seems to affect only newly created folders. With old folders everything works fine.
Any ideas how to fix this?
137 Replies
Replies have been turned off for this discussion
- hmm, anything inside of the root folder gives me the error (The parameter is incorrect).
- We don't have "authenticated users" in our permissions, we have specific users. Once the share is created, it appears the NAS determines who has permission, not AD. So like the others, the Domain Admins are no longer able to control the permissions. Ours is a recent purchase and we were still in the process of changeover, so we're also on hold while awaiting a fix, hoping our old NAS doesn't run out of room in the interim.
- New problem. I needed to create a new folder for another user. I created the folder, but when I tried to edit the security and add the user to the list of people with rights, the readynas is not allowing me to use any AD accounts. It's using pulling user accounts from itself instead of my AD domain.
Now I can't set up folders at all.
EDIT: I set the readynas to User security mode then back to Domain security mode and that fixed this problem. - I am getting the same issue here, latest raidiator .13, unable to set permissions on a sub-folder inside a share for a specific user, "the parameter is incorrect".
Detaching and re-attaching to the active directory is out of the question, I did a test on another readynas 2100 ane it completely messed up the permissions, even if I re-imported the user id map. - Don't suppose someone on the council could give us an update since this seems to be a pretty widespread issue?
Conn wrote: New problem. I needed to create a new folder for another user. I created the folder, but when I tried to edit the security and add the user to the list of people with rights, the readynas is not allowing me to use any AD accounts. It's using pulling user accounts from itself instead of my AD domain.
Now I can't set up folders at all.
EDIT: I set the readynas to User security mode then back to Domain security mode and that fixed this problem.
This is happening again. I tried to edit security rights on a folder, and I could not choose any AD users. I could only choose users from the readynas itself.
Has there been any sort of update to the original posted problem elsewhere?- You can try the beta here: viewtopic.php?f=51&t=45827
Grievous wrote: You can try the beta here: viewtopic.php?f=51&t=45827
Sorry, but I don't feel comfortable isntalling a beta on this NAS since it's our main storage server.- Ok, so you can wait until the final then.
Grievous wrote: Ok, so you can wait until the final then.
There's nothing else I can do? Would it be better to roll back to the previous firmware? Is there an estimate as to when the .14 firmware will be made final?
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
