Need a bit of help with permissions

[MueR]

Hi,

I've had to factory reset my Ultra 6 after a bad FW upgrade, so I've lost my permission settings (silly me for not making backups). I'm trying to figure out how I did them the last time, but am a bit stuck and have no way of testing it proper. Here's the CIFS structure I want to achieve:

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Share        Guest       User
downloads    read-only   read/write
games        read-only   read/write
media        read-only   read/write
photos       read-only   read/write
software     read-only   read/write
upload       read/write  read/write

In short: guests should be allowed to write stuff to the upload folder, but read-only in all other things. If guests cannot remove stuff from the upload folder but still upload, even better.

I just can't for the life of me remember how I did allow guests to write on that one share last time. Is there a way of doing it without creating a guest user? If so, how do I set the permissions?

[StephenB]

Normally you would go into the CIFS tab on the share listing, and set up guest access in the "advanced cifs permissions" section. Write-only permission is not a choice though.

[mdgm]

What happened when you updated the firmware? Depending on the issue a factory reset might not have been needed, but too late for that now.

The positive is that a factory default gives you a clean setup on the firmware you are running. Also there are some expansion limits, firstly 8TB online expansion over the life of the volume (e.g. if volume starts out as 2TB after a factory default you can expand to 10TB or if it starts out as 8TB after a factory default you can expand to 16TB) and you cannot expand beyond 16TB. The factory default may mean it'll take longer for you to reach these limits in the future.

If you want more information on configuring permissions than Stephen's good advice above there's a guide to configuring permissions here: How to Setup ReadyNAS Permissions (note that the Ultra only has User mode, so ignore references to Share mode and Domain mode).

[MueR]

I updated the firmware, the machine didn't boot up any more. It was just stuck on "Booting" for hours. When I got it back up after a long while, it turned out that fsck, dpkg, locales and ldconfig had been broken.

I'll have a look at that guide when I get home tonight. Thanks.