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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
You are pretty much correct on everything. I did not configure the permissions, a non-IT manager did them previously and this is not a long term solution but needs to work in the interim. So the odd setup was from someone who didn't know better and it's an "is what it is" setup for now on that one.
The 3 shares that stand out... Yes, none of those will accept permission changes. Quality is the one that initially started giving us the issues.
On the SMB Everyone and Admin have RW. Allow Annonymous access box is ticked. No other users right now have a tickbox available to even select RW for a user. However, previously there was this option and if I ticked the RW box and saved it would precess but then not add the new permissions and had the error that is in the original post.
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
Thanks, they can now RW to the drive. Yes the permissions are setup horribly but this unit came with the facilty we bought and is only an interim solution while we get our servers setup and installed.
Thanks for everyone's help.
Glad to help. Please consider marking this case a "Solved". Cheers.
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