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Suddenly my NAS appears to be read only?
Hi, For some reason I am suddenly unable to use my device as "normal". Normal being I map a drive letter (M) on my Windows machine to \\IP\media\video using the account "admin". This allows me to e...
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The resetting the permissions you have done in the troubleshooting step; Did that help the issue temporarily?
(If so) There is an option under CIFS; "Advanced CIFS Options", you can check these two options to make sure the permissions don't get funky after writing/editing files/folders.
(If that step didn't work) - What are the users/groups set in the "Advanced Options" tab?
I would suggest setting it to "nobody"/"nogroup"; resetting the permissions to see if that helps.
The admin user is a different user as the root user, but has similar access properties from the share side. (Since you can't login with root from most of the share options.)
The resetting the permissions you have done in the troubleshooting step; Did that help the issue temporarily?
(If so) There is an option under CIFS; "Advanced CIFS Options", you can check these two options to make sure the permissions don't get funky after writing/editing files/folders.
(If that step didn't work) - What are the users/groups set in the "Advanced Options" tab?
I would suggest setting it to "nobody"/"nogroup"; resetting the permissions to see if that helps.
The admin user is a different user as the root user, but has similar access properties from the share side. (Since you can't login with root from most of the share options.)
I've had this problem about 5 times over the lifetime of my ReadyNas RND4000. I'm suffering it again and this time I'm unable to fix it.
Under Advanced Options for CIFS, I've tried setting the "share folder owner" to admin, to nobody, and to another user account. None of these work, and it always reverts to nobody for the share folder owner, and nogroup for the share folder group. Obviously I'm selecting "Set ownership and permission for existing files and folders in this share to the above settings". Windows Explorer continues shows "Unix User\Root" as the owner.
[edit]: I deleted an old share which the web interface first told me that it would be deleted in the background, and then confirmed the operation. Rebooted the NAS box. It has reappeared in the share listings. What??
Netgear won't offer support on this ("complementary support" shows a big red cross in my.netgear.com).
Rebooting the NAS box and repeating the actions of setting permissions appears to have worked this time. It's as if the entire NAS box functionality was in read only mode previously, despite the web interface confirming every operation.
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