How do you set user permissions?

[Lighthammer]

Greetings,

I've been looking around the wiki and watched the videos AND looked through the first few pages of this forum but I am still a bit baffled here.

I'm very much used to Windows NT-esque permission setting but I can't seem to find anything in FreeNAS that lets be have "that much power" as it were.

What I want to be able to do, per user, is be able to hide certain directories, allow R/W and of course forbid R/W access. I'd like to do it with User Grouping as opposed to per user permission setting.

In so far I do in fact have several custom users and several custom groups made. I also have several CIFS shares up and running and the same shares accessible through FTP.

Though this is likely a very different topic, I'd also like to make these same shares available threw OnCloud, though that seems like its a whole tier different of setups.

Thanks for your time!

 

[Lighthammer]

Hmm, this seems to have answered my question:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYkZlbBbwk

 

[Lighthammer]

Ok, so I've been racking my brain with this.

I followed all the steps in the video and nothing seems to ACTUALLY work. No matter what I do, my Windows User just never seems to be work nor does non-anonymous FTP ever seem to work. I've even gone as far as running a wipe / restore on the whole FreeNAS system to start over.

I am in fact running v9.1 and am considering trying an earlier version of FreeNAS to get things working to my liking. I've also tried using Ubuntu which isn't giving me the results I want (though generally able to do what I want to).

 

[cyberjock]

You can't blindly follow videos and guides. You really have to understand the concepts and what they do. That's why I don't try to help with permissions problems. I've spent 3 solid days with people on Skype and as a volunteer that was unacceptable to me. So I gave up and stopped trying.

 

[Lighthammer]

I won't say I blindly followed videos (and this one was actually a good one), I did a lot of trouble shooting attempting to figure this issue out as I stated already in the thread.

But honestly, in fairness, if you're going to jump in a thread and just rail about people asking for help, that kind of help isn't needed. That doesn't set a good precedent for the forum, especially when you have an Admin next to your name =(

All I'm looking for is some hints of what I need to look at it. I've already been through the documentation over and over and its not helping =(.

 

[cyberjock]

I won't say I blindly followed videos (and this one was actually a good one), I did a lot of trouble shooting attempting to figure this issue out as I stated already in the thread.p

But honestly, in fairness, if you're going to jump in a thread and just rail about people asking for help, that kind of help isn't needed. That doesn't set a good precedent for the forum, especially when you have an Admin next to your name =(

All I'm looking for is some hints of what I need to look at it. I've already been through the documentation over and over and its not helping =(.

I was trying to help you. I tried to point you in the direction of using the video as a guide, but actually understanding the deep level concepts.

Notice nobody else has responded to this thread. That's not an accident.

I thought a response like mine would be helpful since nobody else has bothered to post. Guess I was wrong.

Good luck to you sir!

 

[Lighthammer]

You were trying to help by saying you weren't going to help?

What kind of sense does that make?

I didn't expect a response to be forth coming because, honestly, looking at this forum, its NOT THAT ACTIVE.

Maybe these sort of responses from Admins is why =(.

 

[cyberjock]

You want a "not active" forum go to NAS4Free! They are freakin' dead over there. If you take a look we have quite a few people that later admit they are using NAS4Free but due to lack of support in their forums they come here. I'd say a 10 minute response to your comment is a pretty active forum.

Feel free to go to another product if you are dissatisfied with your service here. I'll even give you a full refund off your purchase price if you'd like.

 

[Lighthammer]

12 hours off my original post. That does qualify is slow, but for a free product, I don't expect lightening speed, I wasn't even sure I would get a response really.

What I DON'T expect is someone trying to pad their ego by being an internet troll.

PS Thanks for helping to make the thread pretty much useless.

Either way, I have better things to do then to continue to trade barbs with you.