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Title: More user permissions issues?
Post by: CactusJack on February 08, 2010, 07:53:49 PM

Just got a DNS-321, put in two 1TB drives in RAID1 config, and updated the firmware to 1.03.  I want to give different users Read access to a folder, and Read/Write access to another folder.  I've read through this theard http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=2880.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=2880.0) and I'm having similar issues.  One problem I'm having I don't see mentioned though.

I created a group for Read-only access, and another group for R/W access.  However, I am unable to add the same users to both groups.  That is, a given user can be added to only ONE group.  If I add that user to the other group, the user is removed from the first group.

Then I tried assigning folder access rights by individual user.  When I did this, a new share was created for EACH user access.  This makes it somewhat more confusing when mapping drives for these users.  Instead of being able to map both user1 and user2 to share1, I would have to map user1 to share1 and user2 to share2, although both shares point to the same folder on the drive.

Is this the way permissions is supposed to work?  I'm not real versed on networking, and this is really confusing me.

Thanks,
Jack

Title: Re: More user permissions issues?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on February 09, 2010, 05:29:07 AM

Just tried it and apparently, that's the way it works.  A number of things about the permissions don't make sense to me, so you're not alone. :)

Title: Re: More user permissions issues?
Post by: CactusJack on February 10, 2010, 05:53:00 AM

Thanks for that, gunrunnerjohn!  Hopefully someone here will be able to make some suggestions about how best to set this thing up.

Title: Re: More user permissions issues?
Post by: jamieson on April 28, 2010, 08:31:41 PM

Trying to understand how to set permissions on some folders.  For example, I'd like Volume_1 to be read-only but some sub-folders to be R/W: 

Volume_1, All users, R
Volume_1/temp, All users, RW
Volume_1/music, All users, RW

This doesn't seem to take... all folders are read-only.  Tried deleting the rule for the Volume_1 root directory, no change.

V1.03 firmware 2 x 500Gb drives RAID1

Title: Re: More user permissions issues?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on April 29, 2010, 05:42:28 AM

The permissions on this box work a bit screwy to be charitable. :) 

I have shares for some folders within Volume_1 with added permissions.

Volume_1 -> admin R/W
Volume_1\User 1 -> user1 R/W
Volume_1\User 2 -> user2 R/W

This seems to work out.  With this scheme, admin has access to everything, but user1 and user2 only have access to their individual folders.  You can NOT have any anonymous shares if you have any password protected shares, that does not work.