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Share Permission Problems
Please forgive my question because the answer should be trivial and intuitive.
I have a RN102 and I am using ReadyNAS to set the share permissions. I have share on my RN called "Documents" and I have set the permissions as follows as per the instructions from the User Manual.
Network Access. SMB only and R/W for admin and my default group name (which I am a member).
File Access. Folder Owner admin, Folder Group admin, R/W for Folder Owner, Folder Group, and my default group name (which I am a member).
When I apply these settings I can't access the share from Windows 10. If I change the File Access to Everyone then I can access the share but those aren't the permissions I want.
I can't see where I am going wrong and any help would be very gratefully received.
Thank you.
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I wish the GUI was made different.
Use Network Access to filter the user permissions, not File Access.
The File Access tab is only for advanced permissions.
If you filter at SMB level, you (most likely) don't need to filter again at the file level.
Configure this way under the settings of the share:
- File Access tab / Reset / Reset permissions.
- Network Access tab, set the permissions as you want.
Test it, you'll see.
EDIT: By "most likely" I mean "in most cases". If you really do need to use these advanced permissions, you should know how.
Thank you for your reply. I understood what you said and I agree that it should work.
Unfortunately that doesn't work for me. I have done as you said and have the following persmssions set on the NAS share that I am trying to access.
File Access. Folder Owner and Folder Group = guest. Ticks next to Everyone, Folder Owner and Folder Group.
Network Access. SMB only enabled. Ticks next to admin and the group name (of which I am a member).
Basically when I try and access the share from Windows 10 explorer, I type in my username and password of the account registered with the NAS drive and I can't access the share. If I allow everyone to see the share and allow anonymous access then I can access the share.
This should be really straight forward but it just isn't working for me.
I am allowing Windows to Manage my account credentials and I'm wandering if there is something cached somewhere that I am missing?
Any help would be much appreciated.
- You can try to add an entry in "Manage network passwords" in Windows.
You can also try to type NASNAME\username as defined in home page when you try to login ou WORKGROUP\username as defined under Authentication tab of the NAS.
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