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SOLVED**ReadyNAS Duo v2 growing permissions problem
Hi All,
I was a very happy Duo v2 owner up until yesterday. I used my duo to serve up a large film collection for an HTPC, run squeezeserver with 400GB music and store backup items for general file transferring around the house from a variety of computers.
I tried to clean up files on the nas from windows explorer (XP), and it rejected attempts with "you do not have permission".
This problem was repeated with the iMac and Win7 HTPC with the same result.
Checking the forums here, there are loads of posts relating to permission problems which I duly read and tried to little or no effect. I'm left with 3 major problems now. (a) My XP pc can access the nas folder the others cant with either access denied (7) or "The operation cant be completed because the item cant be found (iMac) (b) if you use raidiator to access the settings, changing permissions has no effect whatsoever, irrespective of what permissions are changed. (c) If it take a disk out and put it back in, it is reformatted. Ive lost data already due to this. The disk now reformatted, is shown in raidiator and settings but is not accessible at all.
Minor problems include seeing other network drives duplicated and new in addition to my shares. I have two shares (film and Usb_disk_1) In the map network drive window I can see: admin, d(film), e(now empty drive), home, film, usb_hdd_1. I only know about film, e and usb, where did the rest come from?
If i tick "allow anonymous access" the drive becomes inaccessible to all computers.
My issue is, when I bought this a year ago it was plug and play, it pretty much set itself up (minimal input) and has delivered great service up until now. Any computer on my wired network had open access and could. So what has changed? I have installed OSX mavericks on my iMac and the router (Airport extreme) had one update. Other than that, nothing.
Is there any way I can return to the happy running-like-a-dream state I have been in for the past year?
Thanks
Gary
ReadyNAS duo v2 Raidiator 5.3.8 4TB seagate and 1TB seagate flex-raid no redundancy Raidar 4.3.8
Apple Airport extreme router connected to BT infinity fibre optic ethernet connections throughout
Acer Win 7 latest sevice pack i3 2.0ghz 1TB 4GB ram My Movies 4 ethernet most recent updates, none in the last week
Imac 21.5" 2010 i5 2.5 500GB 8GB ram mavericks osx ethernet OSX upgrade 2 days ago
VAIO 1.6 core duo 80GB 4GB XPPro sp3 last updates ethernet No updates in last month
I was a very happy Duo v2 owner up until yesterday. I used my duo to serve up a large film collection for an HTPC, run squeezeserver with 400GB music and store backup items for general file transferring around the house from a variety of computers.
I tried to clean up files on the nas from windows explorer (XP), and it rejected attempts with "you do not have permission".
This problem was repeated with the iMac and Win7 HTPC with the same result.
Checking the forums here, there are loads of posts relating to permission problems which I duly read and tried to little or no effect. I'm left with 3 major problems now. (a) My XP pc can access the nas folder the others cant with either access denied (7) or "The operation cant be completed because the item cant be found (iMac) (b) if you use raidiator to access the settings, changing permissions has no effect whatsoever, irrespective of what permissions are changed. (c) If it take a disk out and put it back in, it is reformatted. Ive lost data already due to this. The disk now reformatted, is shown in raidiator and settings but is not accessible at all.
Minor problems include seeing other network drives duplicated and new in addition to my shares. I have two shares (film and Usb_disk_1) In the map network drive window I can see: admin, d(film), e(now empty drive), home, film, usb_hdd_1. I only know about film, e and usb, where did the rest come from?
If i tick "allow anonymous access" the drive becomes inaccessible to all computers.
My issue is, when I bought this a year ago it was plug and play, it pretty much set itself up (minimal input) and has delivered great service up until now. Any computer on my wired network had open access and could. So what has changed? I have installed OSX mavericks on my iMac and the router (Airport extreme) had one update. Other than that, nothing.
Is there any way I can return to the happy running-like-a-dream state I have been in for the past year?
Thanks
Gary
ReadyNAS duo v2 Raidiator 5.3.8 4TB seagate and 1TB seagate flex-raid no redundancy Raidar 4.3.8
Apple Airport extreme router connected to BT infinity fibre optic ethernet connections throughout
Acer Win 7 latest sevice pack i3 2.0ghz 1TB 4GB ram My Movies 4 ethernet most recent updates, none in the last week
Imac 21.5" 2010 i5 2.5 500GB 8GB ram mavericks osx ethernet OSX upgrade 2 days ago
VAIO 1.6 core duo 80GB 4GB XPPro sp3 last updates ethernet No updates in last month
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- If you log in to ReadyNAS Dashboard -> Configure -> Shares, do you see your original shares?
Click in them, do you see your files?
With a share selected, you should be able to reset permissions under "Files and Folders" settings, then click Reset Permissions. - Hi Tony,
Yes and yes. I only see the "d" drive or "film" share the same 4tb drive (not the second 1tb drive) and yes, I can see the files within.
With a share selected, any resets don't make any obvious changes after being clicked. In fact, any changes to the permissions on each share present the same response on each machine except XP - I assume you are selecting the owner=nobody and group=nogroup, then FolderOwner/FolderGroup/FolderEveryone Rights to ReadWrite. Then click Reset Permissions (which is greyed out until you make some changes).
Then on the Security tab in Dashboard, do you have users setup? - Not quite. I haven't selected this because it applies to files and folders within this share. (When I had done in the past, the reset did nothing - just tried it and still does nothing) I can't get to even access the share when mapping a network drive because despite being visible, it can't connect due to the access denied message in win7 and cant be completed because the item cant be found on the mac. I would have expected at least a log in box but not even that appeared. I previously used the anonymous access to get to the drive, for ease and simplicity.
- SOLVED
Running back through any changes, I noticed that my Apple Airport Extreme had also updated to version 7.6.4 It appears that this version of AAE causes one or two network problems regarding access and logins. (Apple forums)
The rollback of my router now means any device can connect, no denied access or login required.
Changes to the settings actually take effect. Duplicate share entries have all gone and otherwise hidden files have disappeared too. File and folder modification can also take place.
In the end I downloaded Apple airport utility 5.x for windows xp and used the upgrade firmware route to remove the new and go with the old. Result, almost everything has reurned to near normal!
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