Permissions Error

[ESP]

I've got a client who's having permission errors with the ReadyNAS where OS X will tell him he cannot copy the files due to invalid permissions. This happens about halfway through the transfer which is multiple files from multiple systems probably about 3 TB of Data. So the issue seems to be at some point in time he copied many different files from different OS X users and now when we try to copy them off of the NAS to another unit or to a local machine he gets a permission denied from OS X.

I've got a few ideas but was wondering what one would recommend just incase, we're using an OS X Lion Server to run the new file sharing solution. So would logging in as a the local root user have any effect, or will this be an issue that will have to be correct on the Netgear NAS its self. If that's the case can we run a chmod command from the NAS or via OS X terminal to change all permissions (this seems like a messy solution) or alternatively is there an application we can use?

Another option just go into the More Info option and apply the permissions for the admin user on the server and apply to all enclosed items?

Basically aside from going through folder by folder and copying one by one until we find the folder that's got the issue what would our other options be?

[ESP]

Anyone?

[ESP]

Netgear support has been no help, anyone have ideas?

[sphardy]

Have you tried to reset permissions? There's some info on how to do that here: http://sphardy.com/web/permissionsguide

[ESP]

Yeah now we're having issues where it'll say the file already exists when it doesn't. IE it'll copy the name and then go back and copy the file and now it errors saying that the files already there.

[sphardy]

Yeah now we're having issues where it'll say the file already exists when it doesn't.

Have you at some point deleted any files from the destination - via command line or CIFS, for example?

IE it'll copy the name and then go back and copy the file and now it errors saying that the files already there.

I have no idea what this means

[kiwi1969]

I had similar on trying to delete one file.
I reset the owner to myself for all the files via Frontview, and still no luck initially.
I then tried deleting via WEBDAV connection, and that worked!
I would suggest trying webdav on that one file, and see if you can copy it there. The permissions seem to behave different depending on the protocol