Saving Microsoft Word files to ReadyNAS from MAC

If you want your changes to "stick", move them to /etc/frontview/samba/addons/addons.conf.  That appears to be reserved for apps to make any necessary changes to smb.conf and is included in smb.conf via an include statement.  My experiments show it survives an OS update or re-install, where changes to smb.conf do not and may not survive other things I've not tested.  The file may not exist on your NAS, so create it.  You do need to include the [Global] header.  Since that include is near the bottom, anything in addons.conf can override what's in smb.conf  because the last entry is followed if there are contradictory ones.  That's a double-edged sword if you make a mistake.  Of course, it's always a good idea to also keep another copy somewhere on your data volume in case you do ever need to restore it.  It does get included in a configuration backup.

This sounds like something that the Mac compatibility option should add.

In the meantime, a configuration backup restoration could be an easy way to let those who are not comfortable with SSH implement this.  A backup does not need to contain all the files -- the restore will add/overwrite whatever is there in the configuration .zip (at least if it's on the list of appropriate files, as this is -- I don't know about any others).  So as long as there is not already an addons.conf that needs to be added to, that would work.  NOTES TO ANYONE TRYING THIS:  The file will need to be formatted for Linux -- EOL character is an LF, not CRLF, so you have to use the right editor if doing this from Windows.  It also has to be in the right folder in the .zip, and upper/lower case will matter.  Since file ownership doesn't get included in a .zip, I don't think you need to do anything there, but I've not tried it.