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chmod not working (Pro 6, 4.2.19)
On my new Pro 6 (running 4.2.19) I created a new share and then backed up a share over from my NV+. I need to be able to "chmod" specific files here and there, now and then. and it does not work. ...
Thanks.
I still remain convinced that there is something wrong when the owner (or admin) of a share when it's mounted via SMB can't change the unix owner privs of a file. I should be able to use a standard Unix script that might invoke "chmod" and it should work. There must be just some setting or something that's wrong. ssh'ing in was what I had to do the past few months and it is a pain since it meant that I had to manually do the chmod instead of letting the scripts handle it. (similar problem a while ago on an NV+)
To be told by Netgear customer support officially "changing permissions is only supported via frontview. If you are using ANY other method it is not supported. " means that a ReadyNAS is a device I could never recommend for any of my commercial clients, nor a device that I ever would have purchased as it does not do what a NAS is supposed to do --- you mount a file system and then you can do things like chmod privs on it.
I still remain convinced that there is something wrong when the owner (or admin) of a share when it's mounted via SMB can't change the unix owner privs of a file. I should be able to use a standard Unix script that might invoke "chmod" and it should work. There must be just some setting or something that's wrong. ssh'ing in was what I had to do the past few months and it is a pain since it meant that I had to manually do the chmod instead of letting the scripts handle it. (similar problem a while ago on an NV+)
To be told by Netgear customer support officially "changing permissions is only supported via frontview. If you are using ANY other method it is not supported. " means that a ReadyNAS is a device I could never recommend for any of my commercial clients, nor a device that I ever would have purchased as it does not do what a NAS is supposed to do --- you mount a file system and then you can do things like chmod privs on it.
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