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ReadyNAS 104 - 3EP943E6002F4 - Cannot set file access. Check if specified user or group exists...
The unit is setup with local accounts. Adding/Changing permissions have worked fine historically. Last week the firmware was upgraded to 6.7.4 and there were no issues including permissions until yes...
Hi again,
Well so the SMB access it totally open to anyone. That is fine I guess. You are then limiting permissions based on file permissions. There is nothing wrong with that, but I would not recommend doing that when only using Local Users and not AD. Reason being that file permissions from the GUI can be fiddly at times. Normally, it is sufficient to restrict access on the network level (SMB Permissions) in setups that don't involve larger scale solutions (such as AD integrated storage devices).
Network permissions is just easier to manage from the GUI.
Anyhow, if you want everyone to gain access again you can make the change from the command line quite quickly (login over SSH). I am not sure why the reset of file permissions does not work from the GUI. Anyhow, here is how you can reset access to everyone on those 3 share.
cd /data
chmod -R 777 Engineering
chmod -R 777 office-admin
chmod -R 777 Quality
Run these 4 commands one after another. They might take a few minutes to complete based on the amount of data in those shares. You will get the promt back when they are finished running. Basically, it will reset the file permissions back to R/W for everyone. You should then be able to restrict access via GUI afterwards (if you wish to do so). But I would suggest to use SMB permissions instead of file permissions for your setup.Any issues, let us know. Cheers
Hello JNMWMT,
Is the NAS joined to AD or it is just set to local users? What is this share, by the way?
Regards,
Not AD joined. Just local users.
Basically we bought a facility. At the moment there's some basic networking equipment and this ReadyNAS unit that came with the facility. The share just is a place for the departments to store files.
I log into it remotely with the factory admin account. There are about 10 shares on it. It doesn't matter which share, when I go to permissions and select a user for RW, click append, the circle does its circle motion for about 10 seconds then the user is not on the access list.
If I do it through the share settings window I get the message in the original post.
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