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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-323 => Topic started by: anti on December 25, 2008, 07:53:13 PM
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I'm attempting to setup a couple of directories under the standard Volume_1 directory and set individual permissions for each, but with no luck. It seems that any permissions I set are overwritten by inheritance from the Volume_1 directory's perms.
I've got two different users setup, one for myself and one for everyone else. I've made two folders, "shared" and "private". I've setup private to be R/W by my own user, and no accompanying rule for the second user (apparently creating no rule = no permissions according to what I could glean from other posts here?), and I've setup R/W for all users on the "shared" dir.
Unfortunately, if I leave the default rule of R/W access for all users on the Volume_1 dir (can't even rename the damn thing btw?) it apparently inherits this rule on the "private" dir and the secondary user has full access to it. If I remove the rule altogether, then you cannot map any folder whatsoever on either user. If I make Volume_1 only accessible to myself, the secondary user has no access to anything.
Does the beta 1.06 firmware solve this issue or is there a work-around solution? I'd rather not create a second volume with different permissions since I'd rather share all available disk space... if that's the only solution then, well, that's pretty silly on D-Link's part.
My platform is Vista-32, firmware on my DNS-323 is 1.05.
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I could be mistaken, but I seem to recall that the Network Access features only control the folder(s) at the ROOT level of the DNS.
In case I'm not being clear, 'Volume_1' is a the ROOT level of the DNS when you browse it using another device such as a PC. Say for example, you had a folder in 'Volume_1' called 'Volume_1\MYSUBFOLDER', selecting the 'MYSUBFOLDER' in Network Access and assigning it User/Group and R/W permissions would expose the folder alongside 'Volume_1' ...
\\DNS323\Volume_1
\\DNS323\MYSUBFOLDER
... and users navigating to '\\DNS323\MYSUBFOLDER' would be subject to the rights you have set.
Problem is however, the user could still navigate to 'Volume_1\MYSUBFOLDER', which inherits its rights from 'Volume_1'.
Anyone who's had different experiences, please feel free to jump right in ...
:-)
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Path User/Group
\\DNS323\Volume_1 Private
\\DNS323\Private$ Private
\\DNS323\Storage All
\\DNS323\Backups All
This is how I have setup my DNS323, I have created a group (Private) and a User (Fred), the user is a member of the private group and has w/r access to SMB's Volume_1 and Private$, the SMB's Storage and Backups are open to anyone that can access my network.
Security should be opened up not locked down, by this I mean remove all rights from Volume_1 and than start opening up security to the folders you want.
Remember that if you give access to a folder that grants access to all sub-folders.
My 2 cents... ;D