New unraid user, Linux noob here. Tried to do some searches but I'm too scared to apply anything. All data is backed up. Everything has been fine for over a month on the new server with my data until today when I tried to create a new folder inside the base of the pictures folder from a windows 10 computer. It would not create. I am able to create a folder in any subfolder of pictures, just not the base.

It is a part of another share so, it is not the problem. I performed ls -l and getfacl and found the same incorrect permissions applied to the music folder and a few subfolders in my videos. 

Running fix common problems, new permissions, and docker safe permissions did not correct the issue. I can create a directory using the command line in the folder as root user. What is the next step to correcting these permissions and applying them to all the subfolders? How can I find out why the three utilities built-in are not correcting this?

I rebooted the server and an automatic parity check began. Not sure why - had zero issues that should have caused that. it is scheduled for the 1st. File verification plugin runs on the 15th. The log gave no specific reason other than to notify me by email that it was happening. Before that the only error is a time synchronization error - the clock on the server is reading the correct time. That will finish in 5 hours and I'll post the result.

 

Full disclosure: This is the first time I've tried to create a folder in the base of pictures since building this server. It may have been this way since the beginning. The original data fill was all copied from a windows 10 share using the rsync command from the server terminal.

Thank you for your help!

Edited September 26, 20214 yr by wildfire305
added log detail

Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread.

Please see the attached Diagnostics. Parity check finished with zero errors.

cvg02-diagnostics-20210926-1104.zip

A surface level inspection showed only three folders are affected by these permissions and only at their base. All subdirectories inside the wonkily permissioned base folder are normal. Pictures, Music, Home Videos. I dove into several subdirectories and manually listed permissions (I don't know the syntax to get it to tell me what I want to know in one shot). These are accessed by Plex and Jellyfin. Those apps also access the Movies folder which has normal permissions. I'm not saying those apps are causing the problem, just that they are the first thing I thought of that shares commonality. Those three folders in question are within the media subfolder of the main share Pool. I have some symbolic links to those folders in another share called media. That was used to control specific user access permissions to the media folder - didn't want the kids having the ability to delete or read access to the whole pool. "Home videos" however does not have a symbolic link in the media share - so we can probably rule out that as a cause.

 

Can someone share the command syntax to tell me "if directories recursively have read only permissions and not show other results"? dir /p /s /a:r is what I'm used to (I grew up on dos).

19 minutes ago, wildfire305 said:

Can someone share the command syntax to tell me "if directories recursively have read only permissions and not show other results"? dir /p /s /a:r is what I'm used to (I grew up on dos).

 ls -l -h -R | grep dr-

 

Answered my own question after RTFM.

Performing the above command led me to a list of 6 directories with the same strange permissions. One of them contained some unimportant data. So I decided to chmod 777 it. That changed the permissions to match all the others: owner: nobody, group: users with read write execute permissions and now everything works correctly in that directory over the samba share. 

Is it safe to perform that to the other five directories and not worry about how they became read only unless it happens again?

 

An easier way to fix permission issues is to use Tools->New Permissions tool.

4 minutes ago, itimpi said:

An easier way to fix permission issues is to use Tools->New Permissions tool.

It did not change the permissions on the folders in question. I know that is exactly what it is for, but it didn't work. Manually chmod 777 the folders did correct the problem I was experiencing.

On 9/26/2021 at 9:15 PM, itimpi said:

An easier way to fix permission issues is to use Tools->New Permissions tool.

 

Really THANK YOU !!!

Sonarr was acting weird not adding subfolders and this fixed it !!!

On 9/26/2021 at 12:15 PM, itimpi said:

An easier way to fix permission issues is to use Tools->New Permissions tool.

This worked for me...after hours and countless other 'solutions'...easiest fix of the bunch -- many thanks!