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Re: folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)

netghiro
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folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)

Hi,

I'm just setting up a newly bought ReadyNAS 312 and having some difficulties with basic tasks.

I couldn't see my share but I apparently "fixed" the problem.

The problem now is I don't know how I did it.. and since I'm a bit of a newbie I'd like to understand (especially the obscure field of "file permissions").

Hope somebody could please help me 🙂

 

Here a description of the problem:

I just created a user and a folder/share for some testing with a Mac (OS X updated).

Under "network access" I both enable AFP and SMB and gave read/write access to the previously created user and to admin as well.

Under "file access" I gave again read/write permissions to my user and to Folder Owner.

 

Now when in finder I can see the NAS unit 2 times (one named afp and one named smb).

Under SMB I can see my folder but can't see the content, under AFP I've got a failed login.

 

How I fixed (but don't know why):

I started looking around and even checking the router configuration (I just enabled IMGP, but I think this didn't help at all).

So I carefully started too look to all of my share settings.. the only thing I didn't notice before was that we can decide who the Folder Owner is, so I choose my username rather then "guest".

 

So apparently I don't understand what is a folder owner, and the purpose of it.

Does the same concept apply to unix file sytems? (so I better learn about it) or is it just something related to samba/afp?


Thanks for any clarification, or if you could just point me 🙂

There's a lot to learn I know, but I'd better start somewhere...

 

UPDATE: I just tried to disable read/write permission to Folder Owner and everything goes back like before: non access to the share.

 

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vandermerwe
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Re: folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)

The username and password of the nas user should match that of the PC or Mac username/ password combination. 

I have the folder owner as admin, and the group as "users" .  You should then be ble to give access to the whole users group but if you wish you can allow only one user access by setting the access rights.

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netghiro
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Re: folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)


@vandermerwe wrote:

The username and password of the nas user should match that of the PC or Mac username/ password combination.


 

Is that true for both smb/afp?

 


I have the folder owner as admin, and the group as "users" .  You should then be ble to give access to the whole users group but if you wish you can allow only one user access by setting the access rights.


 

I still don't understand the purpose of a separate folder owner.

By the way thanks for help!

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JennC
NETGEAR Employee Retired

Re: folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)

Hi netghiro,

 

You might want to check this thread Network Access vs File Access

 

Regards,

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EskenderNG
NETGEAR Employee

Re: folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)

Hello,

 

From my experience the best setup is to leave file access unrestricted (allow access for everyone) and impose restrictions using network access only. From a security point of view, this will not be a problem as file access rights will not overrule network access restrictions.

 

Bye,

Eskender

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netghiro
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Re: folder owner, how does it work? I don't know how I fixed my problem :)

Thanks everybody for helping me.

For sure I need to dig more into file permissions and protocols.. and the manual 🙂

I still honestly don't understand why we can change the "folder owner" in the file access (drop list menu) settings and what affects: every folder in the share? all new folders created in the share?

Sorry to keep bothering...

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