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Aspirant

Oct 05, 2010

How to make the NAS completely open

I have my ReadyNAS Pro in a small Home office network with 3 different users all accessing the 5 different shares on it. I am so struggling to give everybody full acces to all shares. I somehow can't...

File Sharing

ewok

NETGEAR Expert

Sep 29, 2011

erlend71 wrote:

Or will the CIFS share permissions take precedence over the permissions of files and folders in the share?

erlend71 wrote:
Or will the CIFS share permissions take precedence over the permissions of files and folders in the share?

Your CIFS settings determine who will be able to connect to the share. If a user cannot connect to the share, it doesn't matter what the permissions are on the files. Once the user is connected, the permissions on the files and folders will determine what the user can do.

erlend71 wrote:

I have also problems with permissions on files and folders in the private home shares, after I (logged in as root or admin) were copying files and folders directly to the to the home folders of other users.
How do I set file/folder ownership and permissions to match the corresponding user on the private home shares?

erlend71 wrote:
I have also problems with permissions on files and folders in the private home shares, after I (logged in as root or admin) were copying files and folders directly to the to the home folders of other users. How do I set file/folder ownership and permissions to match the corresponding user on the private home shares?

You'll need to use this addon:

http://www.readynas.com/contributed/ewo ... ip_0.1.bin