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ownership and sharing for pre-existing files and folders
thanks to reading posts here i seem to have properly set up shares and users on my NV+ v2, but i am struggling with moving photos into the media/pictures share and having all the different users able ...
File owners/permissions are not just linux concepts.
One option you have is to set things up so that everyone saving files to the NAS is using the same NAS log on. If you are using windows you can set this in the Credential Manager in the control panel. That will eliminate any need for on-going administrator intervention.
One option you have is to set things up so that everyone saving files to the NAS is using the same NAS log on. If you are using windows you can set this in the Credential Manager in the control panel. That will eliminate any need for on-going administrator intervention.
Getting comfortable with basic linux commands can make things easier. chmod and chown are pretty safe - what they do is reversible, so there's no risk that you would hurt anything. Though using them just gives you another way to fix the problem, they won't prevent it from happening again.
ihartley wrote: Install SSH and learn a few linux commands if needed - chmod, chown, etc. It will do what you want and save you hours/years.
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