Dropbox permissions

You should have created the Dropbox share *before* you installed/configured the dropbox service, and then you would have a folder physically at /c/dropbox that you can use for the service following the link you referenced

As you've already manually created /c/dropbox - rename that (eg to /c/dropbox-), create the dropbox share which will recreate /c/dropbox and then move the contents of /c/dropbox- to /c/dropbox. You should then be able to manipulate network access to the Dropbox share as normal

Remember to stop dropbox during all this

Frontview didn't easily allow me to follow these instructions. With a folder named "dropbox" or "Dropbox" in frontview, it would not allow me to create a user named dropbox. I basically ended up wiping the dropbox sync I previously made. Then I created a dropbox share in frontview after deleting the dropbox users previously created. I re-installed the dropbox service with the username and group name dropbox-cron.

For testing and to give everyone access, I made the frontview permissions guest access allowed and read/write access as the default. Also under Advanced CIFS Permission I have the following set:

Automatically set permissions on new files and folders.
Do not allow ACL changes to be more restrictive than this.
Read/write for group and Read/Write for Everyone for files and folders.

This should set the permissions as 666 at least but they are still being written with the user dropbox-cron, group dropbox-cron with permission 644. This seems to be dropbox specific in the way in which dropbox is writing these files. The only solution I have is to manually do a chown & chmod to my desired permissions or use the frontview advanced option to reset the owner and permissions. I am surprised other users aren't having this permissions issue unless I am missing an option or step somewhere?

Dropbox is now technically working for me but we aren't able to share the way I'd like on the local network with dropbox auto-syncing where network users can edit the files. Right now any file synced down from dropbox to the readynas comes down with 644 permissions and the files cannot be edited until I manually set permissions. We can't share these on each workstation because our dropbox size is now 550GB and this just isn't practical to share across each workstation and laptop.

I could create a cron to re-set permissions but that seems like a silly workaround.

Well, talking to support and thus far the solution is:

$ crontab -e

# m h dom mon dow command
* 5 * * * /bin/chown -hR nobody:nogroup /c/dropbox/Dropbox
* 5 * * * /bin/chmod -R 755 /c/dropbox/Dropbox

:w then :q

The smarter alternative is to set the umask settings in /etc/profile using vim but I see a default set of 022 and am not sure which users this is for. I would like to only set the dropbox-cron user to 755. This cron basically resets the permissions and owner on dropbox once a day and is so far working but clumsy at best.