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Dec 12, 2015

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Unable to access users home directories from windows 7

Hi, I have been using a Netgear X6 at home for media and family storage for about 8 years and decided to upgrade to a RN204. I give myself read/write access to all the media and my home director...

File Sharing

richtoy
Dec 20, 2015
Problem escalated to level 3 support.

They confirmed the symptoms and we solved it by renaming each user to user1 and then back to user whereupon each user in turn started working as expected.

kenalker

Aspirant

Jan 02, 2016

After making the above "account name" change I was having problems accessing certain files. I ssh'd into the ReadyNAS and found that a large chunk of my files are still owned by "ken" but many (maybe half) are now owned by user "1002". I used the following commands (via ssh in /home/ken) to change ownership back, and things are working much better:

chown -R --from=1002 ken *
chown -R --from=1002 ken .*

kenalker

Aspirant

Jan 17, 2016

Well, I spoke too soon. Every now-and-then I will run into a file that I can load into my text editor but I can't then save it back to the NAS after making my changes. For each of these files I have enountered, I must change the corresponding owner back to user "1002" in order to write the file back to the NAS. So now most of my files are owned by "ken" but I'm having to selectively change ownership on certain files to user "1002" in order to gain write access to them. So now I have the bizarre situation where some files in a directory must be owned by "ken" to be written to while others must be owned by the mystery user "1002" to be written to (and all files have identical permissions). In all cases I'm accessing the files from my WIndows 7 machine from the same instance of a text editor.

I have no idea what is causing this. It must have something to do with the account name change in the previous post, but I can't figure out what could be causing these symptoms. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 17, 2016
Did you try doing a permissions reset on the share?
- kenalker
  Aspirant
  Jan 18, 2016
  This is my "home" share. I don't believe there is an option to reset permissions for a home share, is there?
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 18, 2016
    kenalker1 wrote:
    
    This is my "home" share. I don't believe there is an option to reset permissions for a home share, is there?
    
    Sorry, I lost track of that aspect. There should be of course, so that idea should be posted in the ideas exchange.
    
    There are a couple of fixes related to home shares in 6.4.2 beta, but they don't appear to match what you are seeing.
    
    The 1002 is likely a UID, but that doesn't explain the mystery.
    
    Is it practical to copy the data, destroy and recreate the account, and then copy it back? I'd do this with cifs on the PC, not ssh (if the issue is related to the ACL, then copying with linux tools might not fix it).