Anne

Thanks, but I would rather stay with a docker app if there might be one, for a solution.. Do not want to go off in too many directions.

High John_M, Yes it works, however without some form of automation in the selection of what link paths to attribute to a specific user, it would take hours and hours and wear out my kybd. but for my purpose I think it would be a maintenance nightmare, unless I can script something that just asks what location to link to what user or what link location to remove from a user..... Thanks for the idea.. and the script does the work... hmmmm

No, it was restricted to an 8TB array size, and FTP was inadequate at best and it had no capabilities for hosting a website. Plex, Emby and software like that is not available. And I did ask a lot of questions. I was told my solution to FTP was Owncloud or Nextcloud, and that I could host my own web site on unraid and Plex or Emby would take care of the media. I have not even finished loading software for Plex but already I like it. I am having problems with Nextcloud but that is on hold until I figure a way to arrange files that will allow me more flexibility with security, thus the problem I have with no user groups. Unraid seems to be working well for me until I encountered this problem of groups Just to say where I am going with all this... My primary usage will be that of a NAS File Server, then website server, then the Plex goodies, I hope that helps you understand what I am trying to do

My prior server had "user groups" built in and access to the data was smb or nfs. The server was linux based as is unraid. The use of groups made permissions down to the file level an easy task. I do not seem to be able to change either the user or the group in unraid.

I will give that a try.. It will be a lot of work considering I now have 68 shares and and each share has an average of 100 directories with each directory with an average of 25 sub directories and I am only about one third finished with loading data to the server

Hi John_M, Thanks for the thought, however that would entail duplicate files. as in file abc.xx needing to be available for each permitted users share if I understand your thought correctly

Hi itimpi, Thanks for the input, however it seems the alternative is thousands of "shares" which would also be a nightmare in creating unique meaningful share names There surely is a way to add user group functions to unraid

Hi Trurl, No I do not have that many users, in fact I will probably have less than 15 when I am finished,, however... as an example.. If I have users x, y, and z I have a share called TEST with all my FILES arranged by category (directory) ie., A, B, and C under TEST Tower/TEST/A/Files.xx Tower/TEST/B/Files.yy Tower/TEST/C/Files.zz and I want user x to have access to share TEST and category A,B,and C I want user y to have access to share TEST and category B and C but not A I want user z to have access to share TEST but only to category A This is a simple process when using user groups. Are you saying I have to make each category (directory), A, B, and C, a unique share to be able to control individual user access to A, B, and C ? Right now I have at least 175 categories under a single share.. ie., TEST. That would mean I would have 3 or 4 thousand shares by the time I get finished loading files to the server.

Hi Trurl, My goal is security. I am trying to create a user group to assign users "x, y, and z" for the purpose of restricting said group to specified disk(s), directory(s) or file(s). It appears to me at this point that unraid allows restrictions per user of a "share" and quite easily I might add, but I need to restrict users per "group" or some similar function . As far as I know the only way to accomplish this is via "user groups".

I would like to create a user group but cannot find anything about user groups or creating them Seems like everything on my system is either "users" or "root" So I tried to chown the directory ,, all it did was change the user from "nobody" to ???? and told me there was no group by the name I tried to use. thanks Anne [SOLVED] ADDED NextCloud and used it as my file server UNRAID really should upgrade to "User Groups" !