I've read plenty of threads here trying to help users reset their permissions and fix things but I thought I'd start from scratch. Let me give you some background information:
- I am familiar with windows and linux permissions and sharing but I use a MAC day to day.
I have a small NAS where I need some folders to hold my backups, i.e. Documents, (I will access the folders manually from my MAC via a share (whatever one you recommend) or via sshfs (macfuse)) to which obviously only my user will have access, nobody else should even be allowed to see the share in this network.
I will have a few more folders i.e. movies, series to which I need access AND I will have to give access to plex (I know how to do this) and these folders need guest read only access so people on my network can read movies, series, etc.
My problems started when I upgraded freeNAS from 9.2 to 9.3 as things seem to have changed when it comes to sharing and permissions.
I used to create a dataset ( and now I am wondering why I have to specify the share type when creating seeing that I create the share later only???) then create a share onto it with CIFS since that seems to be the most commonly used one and apparently Apple seems to want to switch over to it too and all was good.
Now after freeNAS 9.3. everything's messed up and things that worked before don't work anymore, chmodding seems forbidden and broken with shares, I need a windows machine to properly setup shares, etc.
I need your suggestion for setting this up (keep in kind my client will be 98% MAC OS X and maybe 1% another plugin running on freeNAS i.e. PLEX and 1% maybe I'll access my shares from a Windows machine.)
So anyone able to give me the steps, i.e.
- I am familiar with windows and linux permissions and sharing but I use a MAC day to day.
I have a small NAS where I need some folders to hold my backups, i.e. Documents, (I will access the folders manually from my MAC via a share (whatever one you recommend) or via sshfs (macfuse)) to which obviously only my user will have access, nobody else should even be allowed to see the share in this network.
I will have a few more folders i.e. movies, series to which I need access AND I will have to give access to plex (I know how to do this) and these folders need guest read only access so people on my network can read movies, series, etc.
My problems started when I upgraded freeNAS from 9.2 to 9.3 as things seem to have changed when it comes to sharing and permissions.
I used to create a dataset ( and now I am wondering why I have to specify the share type when creating seeing that I create the share later only???) then create a share onto it with CIFS since that seems to be the most commonly used one and apparently Apple seems to want to switch over to it too and all was good.
Now after freeNAS 9.3. everything's messed up and things that worked before don't work anymore, chmodding seems forbidden and broken with shares, I need a windows machine to properly setup shares, etc.
I need your suggestion for setting this up (keep in kind my client will be 98% MAC OS X and maybe 1% another plugin running on freeNAS i.e. PLEX and 1% maybe I'll access my shares from a Windows machine.)
So anyone able to give me the steps, i.e.
- Create Dataset => Set share type: XXX
- Configure Sharing Service XXX with these settings
- Create XXX share, setup like ???