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folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)
Hi,
I'm just setting up a newly bought ReadyNAS 312 and having some difficulties with basic tasks.
I couldn't see my share but I apparently "fixed" the problem.
The problem now is I don't know how I did it.. and since I'm a bit of a newbie I'd like to understand (especially the obscure field of "file permissions").
Hope somebody could please help me :)
Here a description of the problem:
I just created a user and a folder/share for some testing with a Mac (OS X updated).
Under "network access" I both enable AFP and SMB and gave read/write access to the previously created user and to admin as well.
Under "file access" I gave again read/write permissions to my user and to Folder Owner.
Now when in finder I can see the NAS unit 2 times (one named afp and one named smb).
Under SMB I can see my folder but can't see the content, under AFP I've got a failed login.
How I fixed (but don't know why):
I started looking around and even checking the router configuration (I just enabled IMGP, but I think this didn't help at all).
So I carefully started too look to all of my share settings.. the only thing I didn't notice before was that we can decide who the Folder Owner is, so I choose my username rather then "guest".
So apparently I don't understand what is a folder owner, and the purpose of it.
Does the same concept apply to unix file sytems? (so I better learn about it) or is it just something related to samba/afp?
Thanks for any clarification, or if you could just point me :)
There's a lot to learn I know, but I'd better start somewhere...
UPDATE: I just tried to disable read/write permission to Folder Owner and everything goes back like before: non access to the share.
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Hello,
From my experience the best setup is to leave file access unrestricted (allow access for everyone) and impose restrictions using network access only. From a security point of view, this will not be a problem as file access rights will not overrule network access restrictions.
Bye,
Eskender
Thanks everybody for helping me.
For sure I need to dig more into file permissions and protocols.. and the manual :)
I still honestly don't understand why we can change the "folder owner" in the file access (drop list menu) settings and what affects: every folder in the share? all new folders created in the share?
Sorry to keep bothering...
The username and password of the nas user should match that of the PC or Mac username/ password combination.
I have the folder owner as admin, and the group as "users" . You should then be ble to give access to the whole users group but if you wish you can allow only one user access by setting the access rights.
vandermerwe wrote:The username and password of the nas user should match that of the PC or Mac username/ password combination.
Is that true for both smb/afp?
I have the folder owner as admin, and the group as "users" . You should then be ble to give access to the whole users group but if you wish you can allow only one user access by setting the access rights.
I still don't understand the purpose of a separate folder owner.
By the way thanks for help!
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