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Author Topic: Subfolder permissions  (Read 4941 times)

anti

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Subfolder permissions
« on: December 25, 2008, 07:53:13 PM »
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.
« Last Edit: December 25, 2008, 07:55:56 PM by anti »
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hilaireg

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Re: Subfolder permissions
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2008, 03:48:25 PM »
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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Rodent

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Re: Subfolder permissions
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2008, 04:41:08 PM »
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
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