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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.3.8KViews0likes5Comments