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Multiple users sharing files
Greetings ReadyNAS experts! I have a RN516 with OS6.2.2 and I'd like to set it up to allow multiple users to access/edit/delete the same files. I've searched around the forum and the web in general...
Hi there, I work with Fetopher and after we have spent extensive time trying to get this to work it seems that we have come to a conclusion. I'd love someone from Netgear to pipe in and let us know if we are correct, or if we are simply missing something.
It seems that we can easily set a specific single user / group to have Network access to a share, say production/production. Then, all of our employees simply use that one user to login, all files are saved as production/production and everyone can access everything.
We could also setup multiple shares, each with specific user access, and allow multiple users access to their own shares. Each share would singularly be owned and accessed by an individual user.
We can also have a single share with group level Network access, and wide-open file access (guest/guest defaults, everyone access) in which any user that logs into the share can create their own files / folders.
The thing that we can't do, but were ultimately hoping to do, is have group-level Network access to a single share in which multiple users can login and have shared-access to files / folders. Once a folder is owned by a user, say test/production, all other users can no longer write to that folder despite being in the same group as the original folder owner. Trying to place a new file as test2/production in that folder owned by test/production fails. This is a huge bummer, because we all share files and were hoping to be able to see who last wrote the latest version of the file on our ReadyNAS.
What are we missing? Is the ReadyNAS meant to be a sandboxed user experience, and not a shared file server?
It seems that we can easily set a specific single user / group to have Network access to a share, say production/production. Then, all of our employees simply use that one user to login, all files are saved as production/production and everyone can access everything.
We could also setup multiple shares, each with specific user access, and allow multiple users access to their own shares. Each share would singularly be owned and accessed by an individual user.
We can also have a single share with group level Network access, and wide-open file access (guest/guest defaults, everyone access) in which any user that logs into the share can create their own files / folders.
The thing that we can't do, but were ultimately hoping to do, is have group-level Network access to a single share in which multiple users can login and have shared-access to files / folders. Once a folder is owned by a user, say test/production, all other users can no longer write to that folder despite being in the same group as the original folder owner. Trying to place a new file as test2/production in that folder owned by test/production fails. This is a huge bummer, because we all share files and were hoping to be able to see who last wrote the latest version of the file on our ReadyNAS.
What are we missing? Is the ReadyNAS meant to be a sandboxed user experience, and not a shared file server?
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