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I have finally, after way to many hours of experimentation, managed to get the shares and guest access working roughly (but not exactly) as I would like.
However, there are many questions that I simple don't know the answers and unfortunately reading the manual provides no additional clues.
Shares and guest access seems to be an area for huge amounts of misunderstanding and confusion.
If someone could help with the answers to these questions then I would be most grateful:
Many thanks.
However, there are many questions that I simple don't know the answers and unfortunately reading the manual provides no additional clues.
Shares and guest access seems to be an area for huge amounts of misunderstanding and confusion.
If someone could help with the answers to these questions then I would be most grateful:
- I know that if you tick the 'Allow Guest Access' checkbox against a CIFS share then no password is required to access the share and users have the permissions of the 'guest account' user defined in the CIFS services. Question is how to I determine what these permissions are (e.g. read, execute, write etc) and more importantly how do I change these permissions? I have been using 'nobody' as the 'guest account' user in the CIFS services but if I look at the user accounts in the groups & users sections there are no permissions associated with users?? So I am totally confused as to how FreeNAS knows what permissions to give the guest users.
- Why doesn't FreeNAS allow you to change mode (read, write, execute of owner, group, other) of datasets if the permission type is Windows?
- If I change the permission type to Unix then then I can change the mode but I assume this is irrelevant for CIFS shares anyway.
- If the permission type is set to Unix and I change any of the mode settings (for example uncheck the read and execute checkboxes for 'Other' and save the changes then when I look at the setting again then revert back to the same as they were prior to me changing them! i.e. I can't save any changes??
- Do owner (user) and owner (group) always have 'full' permission over the dataset shares or can you choose if they have read, right, execute permissions?
- I have two shares which have owner (user) and owner (group) settings without guest access but when I looks at the shares' permissions using my Windows 7 client both shares have 'Everyone' with 'Read & execute', 'List folder contents' & 'Read' permissions set in addition to full permissions for the user and group I specified. Why is this and can remove the 'Everyone' permissions??
Many thanks.