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setting up custom shared folders for windows users
I have had my readynas with OS 6.X for some time. i was lazy and getting head aches trying to figure it out. but i decided its time i actually use it to its potential. i have stuided the user manual,...
i am getting closer, but still not working how it should.
i have created:
ReadyNas
- Backup (i want to access from a mapped drive on my personal PC, it is mapped, but not accessible, does NOT show free/total space info like other drives)
- C Drive (contains backups of folders from my C drive on my personal PC)
- G Drive (contains backups of folders from my G drive on my personal external hard drive)
- Videos (I can access/edit as a mapped drive from my personal PC - this is the only folder that is working how it should)
- gopro final
- workout videos
- Videos-private (i can map the drive and read, but i cannot edit/add files to it)
- gopro raw videos
Accounts: created users and groups:
Users:
- admin
- Carlos (for me to access/edit mapped drives from my PC)
- friends (so i can add certain mapped drives (videos) to other PC's as read only)
- test
Groups - i just created groups just because, not sure how to use them. not sure if i should even use them at all or just use users when giving permissions to folders.
- admins
- admin
- Carlos
- friends-group
- friends
- users
Permissions:
ReadyNas
- Backup - hidden -
- SMB - read and write: admins group , admin , Carlos
- HTTP - Access: admins group , Carlos
- Videos
- SMB - read/write: admins, Carlos admin. read: friends group, friends
- HTTP - Acess: admins, friends group, Carlos, friends , test
- Videos-private - hidden
- SMB - read/write: admins group, carlos, admin,
when i map a drive it asks me for a username and password. i user "readynas\carlos" and its password. since i have given user: Carlos read and write to everything, should i be able to read and write to each shared drive???
what am i missing.
maybe i am asking the wrong questions?
can someone help with a step by step for creating a hidden shared folder that only a single "user" (carlos) can see and access/edit?
CMoney408 wrote:
can someone help with a step by step for creating a hidden shared folder that only a single "user" (carlos) can see and access/edit?
If you just need one of these, you can use the private folder for the user (carlos in your case), and not create a share at all. Admin and Carlos could access it, but no one else could access it (or see it).
Hi CMoney408,
Here are some helpful articles that may help you create a specific folder for that user.
Step by step in making a Hidden Folder
How to enable home folder on ReadyNAS OS 6 system?
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community TeamThank you guys for the tips.
those KB articles are way to simple. i have the 253 page manual, which is just a collection of kb articles. i know how to hide a shared folder. i know the definition of "folder owner, Folder group" , etc" but i dont know what they importance/necessity is (what do they actaully do/mean; how should they be used)?
in my own digging i now at least realize my confussion lies within the "File Access" tab. for all folders i gave User "Carlos" and group "Admins" read/write. but i am not sure if that is overkill (do i only need to check box for user or only for groups, or both?). would just checking the box for Group "admins" be enough? what does folder owner/folder group mean? i set it to Carlos and Admins, respecively for every folder (both shared and private).
i am confused on the proper way to give permissions and proper way to correlate a user to a shared folder through windows (how to tell NAS which user is accessing a folder from a given computer in my house). though i think i have figured most of it out now.
again, thank you guys for your tips. i am new at this and it can become pretty frustrating for myself.
The idea behind groups is that you can easily assign the same access to everyone in the group. For instance, instead of a shared "friends" account, you could have created a separate account for each friend, and put them all into the friends group. Then use the group name instead of the users in the group when you are setting up permissions.
General guidance - it is usually better to set the access up in "network access" and leave "file access" full read/write. If you don't have write network access, the system won't let you write files no matter how the file access is set.
Here's another kb article that has an example that might help. http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26051/~/readynas-os-6%3A-setting-sub-folder-permissions-in-user-security-mode
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