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Title: Can't get write permission to CIFS share
Post by: philled on May 02, 2016, 06:39:42 AM
I have a CIFS share called Volume_1 on my DNS-320L. I've created  anew user called backupuser and in the CIFS settings I have granted read/write access to backupuser. I've also granted read/write to a group called Everything of which backupuser is a member.

No matter from where I map to this CIFS share (on a Windows 10 PC or a Linux PC) I can't get write access. For example, if I try to copy a file into the folder from Windows I get "You need permission to perform this action". Similar from Linux.

No quotas are enabled. Is there something else I need to do to allow this CIFS share to be written to? The NAS is pretty useless without write access!
Title: Re: Can't get write permission to CIFS share
Post by: philled on May 02, 2016, 06:45:26 AM
Actually...might have discovered something. If I mount \\DNS-320L\Volume_1\Backups I can't get write access. But if I mount \\DNS-320L\Volume_1 I can get write access. Why is that?
Title: Re: Can't get write permission to CIFS share
Post by: FurryNutz on May 02, 2016, 07:06:19 AM
Link>Welcome! (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=48135.0)


Possible the share folder doesn't have any permissions set?
How do you have the permissions and folders configured?
Title: Re: Can't get write permission to CIFS share
Post by: philled on May 03, 2016, 05:11:11 AM
I think I've solved the write permissions issue. My directory structure was \Volume_1\Backups and I was mounting \Volume_1\Backups. However, I hadn't set the write permissions properly on the Backups directory, so even though Volume_1 was writeable, Backups wasn't which is why I was being denied write access.

To set write permissions on Backups I went into My Files on the web admin interface, clicked on Volume_1, then in the right hand pane I right-clicked the Backups directory and selected Properties to edit the read/write permissions.

Thanks for everyone's help.
Title: Re: Can't get write permission to CIFS share (RESOLVED)
Post by: FurryNutz on May 03, 2016, 07:02:46 AM
Glad it working now. Enjoy.
 ;)