Frank1940

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  1. Running the 'New Permissions' (TOOL tab) will fix the permissions in your example.
  2. Look at the UMASK settings. Unraid seems to be happiest if UMASK is 000 (or, 0000, if four digits are used).
  3. Be careful at this point which file you delete. Make sure that the file on the array is there in total as cancelling a copy might result in a truncated file...
  4. You are not using both \\<Server-IP-address> and \\<server-Name> to access the server? (Use one or the other exclusively. Not both at different times.)
  5. Under the Unraid Users tab, You should have set up a 'Share Access' user with a password. Then, for each Unraid Share, you should assign the user's access rights for that share--- 'No access', Read-only, or Read/write. Now when you are presented with the screen that you have posted above, enter the user-name and password. Then check the "Remember my credentials" box and click "OK". If you want more information about what is going on, read this post and PDF attachments: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/110580-security-is-not-a-dirty-word-unraid-windows-10-smb-setup/#comment-1009109 Hope this helps...
  6. I do not consider it to be a problem if you use 'High Water' or 'Fill Up'. Both of those fill large chunks of the selected HD before it moves on to use the next disk. It can (eventually) result in spinning up several disks to generate a directory type operation. (You also want do not want to have thousands of files in a single directory as that can also really slow the generation/display of the file structure in the format that you want.) Now the OCD factor is another matter... Yes. HOWEVER, you must do a disk-to-disk type of operation. (Share-to-share operations are also fine.) Share-to-disk (or disk-to-share) operations can result in data loss when you eventually copy a file onto itself. (It has happened and the resultant file is truncated to zero length!)
  7. Try changing this to this: As pick a value of "Minimum free space:" that is about 25% larger than the biggest file you will ever copy to that share. (Your current setting of 458GB is probably about 8X larger than it need be.)
  8. You can see my two servers below. Most of that space is storing media files. A small portion of it has things like original letters, text of self-authored books, tax documents, personal financial documents, digital photographs, digital family photo albums, and copies of old family photographs. These items are simply irreplaceable if they should be lost. I backup the data on each PC once a month to the servers. (I normally don't generate new stuff that fast. Your situation might be quite different...) Every other month, I copy those irreplaceable items onto a 2.5" USB HD drive and take that drive to a safety deposit box at a bank. I have three of these drives-- two in the bank vault and one at home. That gives me (at least) four copies of irreplaceable stuff. Cost for this extra piece of mind is about $150US plus the annual rental fee for the box! You might justify using only two USB drives if the cost is a major factor.
  9. Start here: https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/changing-the-flash-device/ Read through the article and you will find the instructions of getting the replacement key for your new flash drive. Make sure that you look for a .KEY file in the /config folder before you do anything to your present flash/boot drive. If you have any problems getting the replacement key, the contact information for support is in the article.
  10. Do you have a backup of the flash drive that is current? Where is saved at? If it is on the server, get the last couple of them off the server and saved on something external to the server. (Never understood why some people thought that making a backup on the server of the server's Boot Drive was a good practice...) If you don't have a recent backup, start by doing screenshots of the MAIN (do this one regardless of the boot drive backup situation), SHARES and USERS tabs. Then do screen shots of any settings pages that you think you might need. Don't forget the Dockers and any VMs. You might never need these but making them is an insurance policy.
  11. But for how much longer??? Remember that Macrium used to allow their backup software (Reflect) for free and now they have subscription/major-version plan. Their business plan was similiar to what Truenas has been using. MS may be giving their software updates away but only until your current hardware dies or is obsolete. (Remember that WIN11 only will install on newer hardware...) Plus, what about the fees for MS Office and, now, Copilot. Even the lifetime version of MS Office will lose support, updates and support after a few short years. Plus, I know they are putting Adverts in a side bar on many of their 'free' games. When will they start putting them in Office??? The handwriting is on the wall. The day that the 'home' user gets quality software for free or one time purchase is disappearing. This is not like a book. You simply take it home and use it until it falls apart. I can remember back when TV had very little advertising on it (~1948). Then came advertising between programs. (on the half-hour or hour depending on program length.) Then one ad in the middle from the single sponsor of that program. It continued to evolve until they stop play in sport events for commercials! Most of the complainants are demanding lifetime warranty and support when they make their one time purchase. Those days are now behind us. The glory days where the 'computing' market was growing at what seemed an exponential rate are gone. We are now moving into the mature market phase and those companies who are going to survive this transition are going to have to adapt. (The 'cash' cow phase probably lies ahead...)
  12. This is usually bad news! Unraid is not intended to be run a DMZ and it is usually hacked if it is. You should be using a VPN...
  13. Maybe, I am missing the point. Are you saying that your computer that is connected by a cat5 cable can not access your Unraid server that is also connected by wire when you turn on the Asus Guest network feature? That sounds like an issue you should be taking up with Asus...
  14. OK, but where is the setup for the Regular WiFi network? The intend of a guest Network is to allow access by its clients to the Internet and to prevent access to the computers on your LAN. You also need a WiFi setup for the Regular WiFi with its own unique 'Network Name (SSID)'. (This SSID must be different from the Guest SSID!) This Regular WiFi will allow access to both the Internet and the computers on your local LAN. BTW, hiding this 'Network Name (SSID)' is not necessary. Your router is already broadcasting it for all the world to see. The WPA Preshared Key is the thing to be hidden. You can tell when you have things set up right. When you open up the WiFi connections selection screen on a WiFi device (computer, Smartphone, etc.), you will see a list of the available WiFi connections. You should see both of your router's SSID names on the list of potential connections.
  15. Did your read the manual? (You may have to search for it as many manufacturers no longer provide a printed copy of it in the package!) You are looking for the setting(s) that will determine if a wireless device is assigned to the Guest network or the regular LAN network. (A device can not be on both simultaneously.) With my Netgear router, I can assign different SSID's to the Guest network and the Regular network. One then logs a device onto the SSID where one wants that device to be. (I can't believe that Asus does not have a similiar feature.) When a visitor comes to my house and I want to provide them with WiFi service, I just give them the SSID login information for the Guest network. I can also turn off the broadcast of the SSID header for the Regular WiFi so that only the Guest network header is displayed.
  16. To find out, you will have to perform a similiar series of tests using that Windows computer to see if you can figure out what is causing it. I don't either but there is a warning here: And here is a link to what those lines are doing: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html By the way, if you put a # in front of any line in SMB Extra settings, you will convert it into a comment... I have no experience with Apple products so I am no help there at all.
  17. Quick Test: LibreOffice 7.3.5.2 Windows 11 23H2 Unraid 6.12.8 First test --- copied 2023\ HolidayAlbum.odt to server using Windows File Explorer. Used GUI terminal and ls program to verify permissions. Permission were rw-rw-rw- as expected. Opened file by doubleclicking in Windows Explorer. Edited in LibreOffice. PErmissions changed as shown above Everything worked as expected. Second test-- Using LibreOffice, New document Than created directory Libreoffice using 'Save as' from Writer. Save New.odt in that new directory. Permissions as shown below. Note they are what one would expect with the exception of the execute bit. Third test--- Reopened the above file to edit it. These are the permissions in that state: Notice that extended attributes have been attached when the file was locked! Edited the file and save it. Closed LibreOffice. This is the permissions after that: I run a series of tests and I had no problems access the directories using Windows Explorer. I even opened the New.odt with an E-book reader and that was successful. Third test-- I opened this file using Windows Explorer from another computer logged in with different user-name. Edited the file and saved it. Here are the results from that test: So you see that Libreoffice does work with Unraid SMB. The fact that there are extended attributes on LibreOffice edited files does not seem to impact normal usage of these files. I have no idea why your dad is running into issues. But I would suspect that it is something in the way that his Windows computer is set up. I will ping @dlandon as he does seem to have a bit more knowledge in this area.
  18. This area of the extended permissions is a bit of a mystery to me. What I do know is that they have a tendency to screw up Unraid SMB access. (Not sure what they do to NFS access...) You probably need to Google to find more out. I know that I have edited my Wife's LibreOffice files on her computer from my computer and have not had an issue to date. (Knock on wood...) As you read, if it is turning the execute bit on a directory, you will not be able to access the files within that directory.
  19. I use LibreOffice but only local files on my PC and only the Writer and Calc modules. I had a very quick look and there may be some sort of File Manager for remote files. (I didn't explore it. but usually these only allow basic file browsing.)
  20. Make sure he is not using the 'Sharing' and 'Security' Tabs under properties to 'fix' permissions on directories and files that are on the Unraid server. (There aren't many people in the world who can give proper advice on how to do this and they work as paid consultants getting the 'big bucks'!) You can find info on setting Unraid up for a secure environment here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/110580-security-is-not-a-dirty-word-unraid-windows-10-smb-setup/#comment-1009109 Also, the 'Help' feature in the Unraid webGUI will explain the difference between the 'Public', 'Secure' and 'Private' share settings. The combination should provide all the protection that most home LANs require. Unraid does provide a encrypting feature if that is deemed necessary for some reason.
  21. Permissions in Linux work differently on directories than they do for files! Read this entire article: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-file-permissions-explained Not sure. You have to know what OS he used. You would have to know the steps he did when he edited that 'file'. You would have to know if he used SMB, NFS or what did the permissions on the file end up as? BTW, this type of permission problems are seldom encountered by Unraid users. They are caused by systems external to the Unraid base OS. Sometimes, these external system are Dockers containers that are not properly set up for use with Unraid and, sometimes, it is cockpit error.
  22. That is what the diagnostics are indicating. You mean your original boot drive is still plugged to the first server. If so, move it over. Make a backup on your PC as you make the move. (Doing so will virtually guarantee that you will never need it!) You can actually plug that original boot drive into new server and boot up with it. That what many of us have done when changing out hardware. Unraid is very hardware agnostic. (Until you get to VMs and Dockers that pass a hardware device through to. JUST remember to never, never agree to a prompt to format a disk until you are sure that you are prepared to lose all the data on that disk. Intel to AMD conversions can have a vew more issues-- particularly the earlier versions of the Ryzen chip set.
  23. OK are these Docker containers? If so, read this post: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/131730-update-from-69-to-6115-and-got-permission-denied/#comment-1219731 Pay particular attention to this section: New Permissions will probably be required after you have gotten them all changed. (Many Dockers containers that are not Unraid aware often are configured to set things up wrong. I would hope that any Unraid developer would take the time to modify his containers to do things correctly.)