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SMB Share - Access tab versus Security tab
Hi all, On one of our shares of our ReadyNAS 314, we've been experiencing some rights issues, due to rsyncing files from another NAS. We're currently checking all settings and I have a question ab...
Surger2 wrote:
Should our settings be as follows?
Folder Owner: [a user name belonging to the group]
Folder Group: [the group name]
Folder Owner Rights: [Read/Write]
Folder Group Rights: [Read/Write]
Folder Everyone Rights [Disabled]
I would use this. Note that if these are just used for resetting permissions you will probably find that after the changes have been applied it will no longer show these settings. This section is used for one-off resetting of permissions, I think.
Surger2 wrote:
If so, in what scenario would these default file-level access settings cause security issues?
If you get it wrong you may temporarily lose access to the files till you reset the ownership/permissions again with suitable settings.
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