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mattk91
Apr 06, 2021Aspirant
RNR-4B Changed permissions on its own
Pic 1 shows how in the netgear portal, our shares have anonymous access … we did not set them up like this. This changed sometime in the last few weeks. Pic 2 shows the folder owner changed to...
Sandshark
Apr 06, 2021Sensei
mattk91 wrote:
Pic 2 shows the folder owner changed to something that looks like unix user (maybe) but whatever it is, it is NOT the way they were setup before. Having this identity as the owner prevents us from setting back our permissions.
If you select RESET on the left side of the menu above you will find that the ReadyNAS OS has given you the capability of doing exactly what you say you cannot do.
Note that file permissions can be changed via Windows security by anyone having full file access, so that could be what happened. Hopefully, not intentionally. But if you give Everyone full access, and especially if you allow it anonomously, then that's a risk you are taking, including possible intervention by malware.
- mattk91Apr 06, 2021Aspirant
I recieve an error when trying to reset the permissions. It says another change is in progress.
- schumakuApr 06, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Based on that first unshared folder with this unreal 16777xxx TB ... something is broked with the file system...
- StephenBApr 06, 2021Guru - Experienced User
schumaku wrote:
Based on that first unshared folder with this unreal 16777xxx TB ... something is broked with the file system...
Turn off quota on the volume settings wheel, and then turn it back on again.
On the share owner issue, the numeric values indicate that there is no NAS user account or group with the UID/GID - so it is just showing you the UID/GID. You can pick any NAS user account and group from the pulldown. Then as Sandshark says, just hit reset, and the permissions will be applied recursively to everything in the share.
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