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N_i_c_k
May 29, 2016Aspirant
Group permissions taking preference over user
Just tested this a few times and I can totally reproduce it. Is it a new 'feature' in 6.5? Not from where I'm standing... Let's say you have a user named exampleuser. He's a member of a group n...
BrianL2
Jun 01, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi N_i_c_k,
I just tested it on a PC using SMB and had a different result. It prioritizes the 'User' permission over the 'Group' permission. In MAC using AFP, I was able to duplicate the same behavior that you had. Let me check this with my colleagues to confirm if this is a bug or not.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
TheKurgan
Jul 22, 2016Aspirant
Any news on whether or not this is officially a bug that will be fixed in some release? I have had to work around this with AFP, and an eventual fix would be nice.
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