I stupidly copied all of my files onto my unraid server from mapped drives while logged in as root on my windows 7 machine. Now my other windows PC's can not read the files.

 

If I change the file ownership to 'everyone' and edit the permissions to 'modify' using the same windows 7 mapped drive, The files then appear readable on the other computers.

 

My question is, how can I do this quickly and easily to all of the files?

 

I am a total linux nube, and simple step by step instructions would be most appreciated.

 

Telnet onto unraid (or from console if you have keyboard/monitor setup)

 

Change directory to the UserShare you want

 

cd /mnt/user/usershare1

 

chmod -R 777 *

 

(that will recursively change permissions to read/write/execute for everyone from that directory and below)

 

Thanks, I knew that there must be an easy way, I just couldn't find it.

Thanks, I knew that there must be an easy way, I just couldn't find it.

 

Just so you are clear, the above did not change the ownership of any of the files, it just gave all permissions to all users.

 

 

I use these two command:

 

find /mnt/user/ -type f ! \( -user "nobody" -o -group "users" -o -perm "660" \) -exec chmod 660 '{}' \; -exec chown nobody:users '{}' \;

find /mnt/user/ -type d ! \( -user "nobody" -o -group "users" -o -perm "770" \) -exec chmod 770 '{}' \; -exec chown nobody:users '{}' \;

 

The first one is suited to files and the second to folders. Only the files and folders that have wrong permissions are fixed, saving some time.