How to share with Windows clients using RO or RW permissions on LAN without a domain?

sfjay

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Oct 1, 2019
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I guess it's not a typical request so I haven't been able to find any guides that do what I need to do here.

We have 20 users on a LAN who are for the most part BYOD. They are not in the same domain or workgroup.

So we would like to give them access to various permission controlled folders (using Freenas) that can be accessible on the LAN.

The plan is that we will create 20 user accounts in FreeNAS and assign them to either a _RO or _RW group for any share(s) they need to access.

Shares would then need to have 2 groups associated with their permissions.

g_sharename_RO members would receive read-only access to the share "sharename"
g_sharename_RW members would receive read-write access to the share "sharename"

Are there any guides out there for how to set this up?

In this case, would it make more sense to use UNIX file permissions and NFS sharing? (rather than Windows permissions and SMB/CIFS)

Thank you!
 

seanm

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Jun 11, 2018
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You plans sounds good, that's basically what I do.

Don't use NFS, SMB is much better for Windows.
 
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