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ReadyNAS Duo and Windows 7 permissions - user "lost"
Hi, I'm running a ReadyNAS Duo with Windows 7 Home Premium.
Never had any problems with the Duo - it's given years of good service as a picture/ music server. I've been doing some housekeeping on the music files recently and have been unable to delete or move several files because of a permissions problem.
The error message Windows Explorer gives is "You need permission to perform this action. You require permission from NAS-82-4D-1F\John to make changes to this file".
What I think has happened (based on some trial and error changes to some files recently created and some created many years ago) is that the user "John" (i.e. me) was the user name I created for my share when I first got the NAS. I've subsequently created a user "JohnF". I cannot be certain when or why I created this user, but I suspect it may have been around 3 years ago when I replaced my PC and went to the current laptop with Windows 7.
Now, I am able to delete, move, rename etc., the more recent files on the NAS, I think because these have been created in my new user profile ("JohnF") and the necessary permissions are there. If my guesswork is right and I can't do anything with the older files because they were created by "John", I think my question is there anyway to transfer the files created by the old profile to the new profile (preferably en masse) or failing that, can I somehow recreate my "John" profile on an ad hoc basis to deal with the files that I want.
I've got no expertise in network (you may already have guessed this :roll: ) and the user profiles might have nothing to do with the problem. Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers, John
Never had any problems with the Duo - it's given years of good service as a picture/ music server. I've been doing some housekeeping on the music files recently and have been unable to delete or move several files because of a permissions problem.
The error message Windows Explorer gives is "You need permission to perform this action. You require permission from NAS-82-4D-1F\John to make changes to this file".
What I think has happened (based on some trial and error changes to some files recently created and some created many years ago) is that the user "John" (i.e. me) was the user name I created for my share when I first got the NAS. I've subsequently created a user "JohnF". I cannot be certain when or why I created this user, but I suspect it may have been around 3 years ago when I replaced my PC and went to the current laptop with Windows 7.
Now, I am able to delete, move, rename etc., the more recent files on the NAS, I think because these have been created in my new user profile ("JohnF") and the necessary permissions are there. If my guesswork is right and I can't do anything with the older files because they were created by "John", I think my question is there anyway to transfer the files created by the old profile to the new profile (preferably en masse) or failing that, can I somehow recreate my "John" profile on an ad hoc basis to deal with the files that I want.
I've got no expertise in network (you may already have guessed this :roll: ) and the user profiles might have nothing to do with the problem. Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers, John
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- Just to clarify - these files are in shares (not private user folders). Some of them can be moved, rename, etc. But others cannot be?
If so, go into frontview, and open the share list. Click on the cifs icon next to the share, and then choose the "advanced options" tab on the upper right. Generally I enter "nobody" in the user field, and "nogroup" in the group field.
Set the permissions fields to read/write.
Then check the box next to "Set ownership and permission for..." and the box under it on "Grant rename and delete privileges to non-owner of files."
Click on "apply" on the lower right. The box next to "set ownership" will clear. After a while there will be a pop-up telling you that the operation is complete. - Stephen, thanks for the reply. [EDITED] The files are not in private user folders. They are in a share called "media server" and the files are in folders that I have mapped to Windows. All of the files that appear to be affected appear in Windows explorer in a mapped [edited] drive named ("T:"). Both myself and my wife can see these files using our respective laptops. We can drop files into the media share from the laptop (e/g/ new music tracks), read them and point media apps to them i.e. all my FLAC files for Squeezebox reside here, my MP3s which I use with phones etc.
The problem is just that I cannot delete / move files that I've put onto the NAS because of the user permissions problem described in the OP. I suspect that the files I can operate on are the ones created in my current user profile. The ones I can't, i.e. where permission is being requested by Windows, are ones created in an old profile.
Hope this clarifies the problem. Does it change anything I should try in your solution? - Well, if they are not in private user folders, then they have to be in shares. There is no other place for them to be.
Your mapped drives are either pointing to a share or a user folder. If you look at the mapped drive in Computer, you will see something like this:
sharename (\\nasname) (T:)
The first name (not in parenthesis) is the folder name on the NAS. If it is on the share listing, then it is a share.
So it doesn't change anything on the solution, other than adding an extra step to identify the NAS share the files are in.
If that doesn't work (or if you get stuck) just post a followup. - Stephen, thanks for the quick reply. Files look like they're definetly in shares - the "sharename (\\nasname) (T:)" structure you described appear in Windows Explorer and the sharename also appears in frontview. I'll give your solution a go in the next 24 hours and post the result. Thanks again. John
- Stephen, many thanks. This seems to have done the trick. :thumbsup: John
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